| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| theodicy |
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| SYLLABICATION: | the·od·i·cy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  th - d  -s |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. the·od·i·cies
A vindication of God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil. | | ETYMOLOGY: | After Essai de théodicée, a work by Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz : Greek theo-, theo- + Greek dik, order, right; see deik- in Appendix I.
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