Antonyms for atheist
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ey-thee-ist |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈeɪ θi ɪst |
Definition of atheist
Origin :- 1570s, from French athéiste (16c.), from Greek atheos "without god, denying the gods; abandoned of the gods; godless, ungodly," from a- "without" + theos "a god" (see Thea).
- The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all his perfection, creating an imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell. [Armand Salacrou, "Certitudes et incertitudes," 1943]
- noun nonbeliever
- He only who denies or ignores them can justly be stigmatised as an atheist.
- Extract from : « Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics » by William Thomas Thornton
- Yes, it occurred to me that if one had not a dollar one could not become an atheist.
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- Have I not misrepresented my gewgaws as the atheist misrepresents the truth?
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- Granting this, one may form what conception one will of that Maker, but one cannot be an atheist.
- Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
- I confess that I have never been able to understand the position of the atheist.
- Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
- Or, do you mean that I am an atheist simply, and a teacher of atheism?
- Extract from : « Apology » by Plato
- And an Atheist in our ranks we may not harbor: our community is young in Amsterdam.
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
- The author is not an atheist in one page, and a deist in another.
- Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopdists » by John Morley
- "I understand," said the atheist, glancing into Lorand's eyes.
- Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai
- What right, he asked, had the Brethren to make terms with an Atheist King?
- Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton
Synonyms for atheist
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