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Synonyms for atheist

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ey-thee-ist
Phonetic Transcription : ˈeɪ θi ɪst

Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

Antonyms for atheist

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