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nothingˈarian, n. and a.
[f. nothing n.]
A. n.
1. One who holds no religious belief.
1789Morse Amer. Geogr. 206 There is a considerable number of the people who..are, as to religion, Nothingarians. 1815J. Mason in B. P. Smith Hist. Dartmouth Coll. (1878) 95 This comprises..most of the Baptists and Methodists, and all the nothingarians. 1845T. W. Coit Puritanism 433 The taxes of all the stragglers, nothingarians, and infidels, went there. 1880Echo 20 Aug. 2/5 Are the consecrated churchyards..to be desecrated..to indulge the whim of a few nothingarians and unbelievers?
2. = nihilist 2. rare—1.
1820Lady Granville Lett. (1894) I. 171 Sir Robert Wilson.. says he can bear anything but those nothingarians.
B. adj. Having no definite aim or purpose.
1889Open Court 3 Jan. II. 1393/2 The blessed leisure of wealth was not to him the occasion of a nothingarian dilettantism, of idleness,..pleasure, or ambition.
Hence nothingˈarianism, absence of any religious belief or political creed.
1872J. Grant Newspaper Press III. 282 Conservative, Independent, or Neutral, which last word is but another name for Nothingarianism. 1894Baring Gould Deserts S. France I. 102 The losses of the Catholics are into Nothingarianism. |