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English
Etymology
After French théodicée, from Greek θε�� �god� + δίκη �justice�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/θi:��dɪsi/

Noun
en-noun|theodicies

1. A justification of a deity, or the attributes of a deity, especially in regard to the existence of evil and suffering in the world; a work or discourse justifying the ways of God.

#*2003: God was now nothing more than a distant cause of causes; what mattered was matter, and man acting in nature. The theodicy, the master-narrative, had become secularized. � Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 388)

Translations

German : Theodizee
Estonian: teodiike
French : théodicée
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Dutch : theodicee
Polish : teodycea
Russian : �еоди�е�

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