单词 | ademonist |
释义 | ademonistn. A person who denies the existence of the Devil. ΚΠ 1837 Pen. Cycl. VIII. 447 Unitarians, in accordance with the scriptural adæmonists of Germany, maintain that the Bible affords no sufficient evidence of the existence of a being purely malevolent. 1857 United Presbyterian Mag. Feb. 78/1 The dispute with ademonists is one purely of revelation, as Mr Young with great justice and force repeatedly urges. 1900 Freethinker 23 Dec. 806/1 The Demonist and the Ademonist are in the same class with the Theist and Atheist, who, Mr. Holyoake avers, have no logical existence, and must go to the same logical limbo. 1990 Amer. Philos. Q. 27 163/1 The ademonist could make an argument from good by offering illustrative examples of the overwhelming goodness in the world, thereby challenging the demonist to explain how the existence of the demon is consistent with such goodness. 2003 H. Kallendorf Exorcism & its Texts Introd. 4 ‘[D]iuels are none other thing else, but those..euill motions in men, which doe maruellously..afflict their minds.’ A modern atheist (or at least ‘ademonist’) would probably agree. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1837 |
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