The term deism, however, has come in the course of time to have a more specific meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

Most people have probably never heard of the term deism, or, if they had, would fail to distinguish it from theism.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

I'm not sure deism is the only type of belief compatible with such a view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aiguy's Computer] Reference

I'd define it for you, but since you got so offended last time when I defined the word "deism" - I let you do that, mmkay?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas Faith: When is it okay to use God to advance public policy? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com] Reference

Oh and most of the scientists and thinkers who believed in diety, believed in "deism".    From Wordnik.com.  [Matt Browner Hamlin: Christopher Hitchens Is Absurd] Reference

How else are we to explain the incongruous insertion of the term "deism" in the article?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Moments in bad publicity for atheists.] Reference

To him, the alleged "deism" of the revolutionaries was a shabby mask for iconoclastic atheism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reactionary Prophet] Reference

A succinct way to clarify the article is to qualify the word "deism" to say "deism as defined today.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Other important scientists through the years had religious views that were sub-theistic, such as deism or pantheism (Einstein).    From Wordnik.com.  [Biblical Evidence for Catholicism] Reference

This is what I actually wrote about the deism point.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth Delusion of Richard Dawkins] Reference

SRODES: He was his own -- he invented his own form of deism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Franklin: The Essential Founding Father] Reference

In the South the deism which had influenced the generation led by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expansion and Conflict] Reference

Does something like ceremonial deism diminish religious authority?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Meserole: Faith: How Much is Too Much?] Reference

"You're not aware of the fact that deism is a subspecies of theism".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

To discrim - inate positive or constructive deism as a view different.    From Wordnik.com.  [DEISM] Reference

South Germany, had made a weak attempt to save Effi at least for deism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference

We are not concerned, at the moment, with nontheistic religions or deism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larry Beinhart: The God Series, Part II: Looking at God] Reference

 Even atheists have a spotty record with deism, compared with the likes of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disbelief] Reference

Here's another clue, Mr. Titan of Intelligence: deism is a subspecies of theism.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

You're the one who suggested otherwise, when it came to deism vs. theism, not I.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Some have achieved a comfortable secular humanist stance after a period of deism.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Coastopia!] Reference

It is a statement that deeply and intentionally invokes the language of American deism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geoffrey R. Stone: Romney's Founders] Reference

In the not far distant past deism and pantheism served as a polite subterfuge for atheism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference

Robespierre wished to sweep away Christianity as a superstition, but he would stop at deism.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

He declared that only to superficial persons was skepticism the terminus of speculative deism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference

He is charged with having been under the influence of the shallow deism of the English philosophers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference

I feel that the shift of American culture from deism to rationalism and consumerism is a big part of the problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [brimstone, treacle and invisible suns] Reference

At length he lapsed into the negative deism of the French infidels, just then commencing to gain ground in France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference

At the very most, it was scarcely influenced by liberal monotheistic principles by the way of deism and agnosticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [God, Politics, and the GOP] Reference

Neither should we have to fear that from such a theory cold deism would be substituted for our theism, full of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference

Lincoln was the old charges of deism and aristocracy; but they failed of effect, and in August, Lincoln was elected.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference

By the way, embracing the plusability of deistic arguments, or even accpeting and agreeing with deism is NOT "faith".    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference