单词 | annihilationist |
释义 | annihilationistn.adj. A. n. 1. a. Theology. A person who believes in the annihilation (annihilation n. 2b), soul as well as body, of unrepentant sinners after death; = destructionist n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > destructionist > [noun] > person annihilationist1805 destructionist1807 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > doctrines concerning the soul > [noun] > annihilationism > believer in annihilationist1805 1805 H. Adams View of Relig. (new ed.) i. 124/1 Destructionists..teach..that the sentence of annihilation shall be executed with more or less torment.., in proportion to the greater or less guilt of the criminal... In strict propriety of speech they should be called Annihilationists. 1979 V. D. Doerksen Thiessen's Lect. Systematic Theol. xvi. 162 Annihilationists..hold that man by sin lost the divine element called ‘spirit’. 2001 H. Shields & G. Bredfeldt Caring for Souls ii. 78 Annihilationists who take this perspective teach that man is mortal and that immortality is a gift of God granted to those who believe. b. In Buddhist thought: a person who believes in an enduring, unified self that ceases to exist at death; an adherent of annihilationism (annihilationism n. 2).Annihilationism, a doctrine associated with certain other religious beliefs, is generally regarded as heretical or erroneous by Buddhists as it contradicts not only the doctrine of anatta (anatta n.), but also those of karma and rebirth. ΚΠ 1890 Lucifer 15 Apr. 148 He gave the lie to the annihilationists by admitting that this state [sc. Nirvana] was comprehensible to the intuition of the Arhat who had attained to the fourth degree of..mystic development. 1980 J. Pérez-Remón Self & Non-Self in Early Buddhism xii. 264 The annihilationist loathes becoming and sees liberation in death where the self that is identified with empirical existence is annihilated together with it. 2003 Buddhist-Christian Stud. 23 92 Annihilationists taught that the self is an unchanging entity, identical to the body, which is destroyed at death. 2. A person who advocates or supports the complete destruction, obliteration, or abrogation of something. ΚΠ 1883 Boston Daily Globe 23 Feb. I am not only a prohibitionist,..but an annihilationist, and I believe in no compromise with the liquor traffic. 1961 A. Bell My own Master ii. 32 My father, the ‘total annihilationist’ of 1914, now detested the Northcliffe anti-German campaign. 2014 A. Waterston My Father's Wars vii. 88 Relentlessly pursued by annihilationists, always on the edge of ruin, my father embodied the diasporic Jew. B. adj. 1. a. Theology. Designating an annihilationist (see sense A. 1a); of or relating to annihilationists or to the doctrine of the total annihilation of unrepentant sinners after death (cf. annihilationism n. 1). ΚΠ 1848 Reasoner 9 196 The Destructionist and Annihilationist heretics have drawn their doctrines very fairly from the language of the Gospels and Epistles. 1917 E. Griffith-Jones Faith & Immortality iii. iv. 261 Jesus and the Future sums up the case from a cautious annihilationist point of view. 2003 D. Cheetham J. Hick ii. 55 The annihilationist account does seem to do better when taking stock of the seriousness and significance of personal decisions against God. b. Buddhism. Of or relating to the belief that there is an enduring, unified self that is identical with the five skandhas (skandha n.) and that ceases to exist at death.The five skandhas are: material form, sensation, perception, predispositions, and consciousness.Annihilationism, a doctrine associated with certain other religious beliefs, is generally considered heretical or erroneous as it contradicts not only the doctrine of anatta (anatta n.), but also those of karma and rebirth. ΚΠ 1921 T. W. Rhys Davids & C. A. F. Rhys Davids in tr. Dial. Buddha III. xxv. 41 The Annihilationist heresy (ucchedanta). 2012 A. C. Muller & C. T. Nguyen in A. C. Muller et al. tr. Wŏnhyo Philos. of Mind i. 5 The middle path..is free from..the annihilationist view (uccheda-vāda)—that the effects of actions cease as soon as they are over. 2. That effects or advocates the complete destruction, obliteration, or annulment of something. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > annihilating extinctivea1623 annihilating1629 mundicidious1647 erasive1657 uncreating1743 annihilative1764 exterminatory1790 exterminative1884 annihilationist1922 1922 Times 10 Feb. 9/3 Only by intense work, he said, could..the ‘annihilationist’ tendency directed against the German State be defeated. 1941 Jewish Post (Indianapolis) 19 Sept. 10/3 The annihilationist policy of the Nazis. 2005 Guardian (Nexis) 14 Dec. 27 It's not paranoid to worry about a president with annihilationist dreams—it's smart. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.adj.1805 |
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