释义 |
irreˈligionist [f. as prec. + -ist.] One who supports or practises irreligion; a professed opponent of religion.
a1779Warburton in Kilvert Select. (1841) 367 The irreligionist, with the malice to embarrass, and the religionist, with the vanity of doing what no one was able to do before, has been always forward in writing upon this subject. 1877Recoll. S. Buck iii. 118 Those only who were confirmed irreligionists. 1880Sat. Rev. 26 June 820/1 Any class of religionists, or irreligionists—if the term may be allowed—who had specially outraged the national sentiment and thus incurred popular odium. |