negationistn.
/nᵻˈɡeɪʃn̩ɪst/, U.S. /nəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)nəst/ A person who denies or rejects something.
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negationist1856
negativist1861
1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith 423 The German Negationist who makes thought the all.
1882 A. Bain James Mill 140 In everything characteristic of the creed of Christendom he was a thorough-going negationist.
1944 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 584/1 They were as sorry negationists and defeatists as this promiscuous old world has ever produced.
1995 Philos. & Public Affairs 24 95 The prosecution in Europe of negationists or sellers of Nazi memorabilia is overwhelmingly merely ridiculous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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