1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Adevism
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ADEVISM, a term introduced by Max Müller to imply the denial of gods (Sans. deva), on the analogy of Atheism, the denial of God. Max Müller used it particularly in connexion with the Vedanta philosophy for the correlative of ignorance or nescience (Gifford lectures, 1892, c. ix.).