deist

[ dee-ist ]

noun

1. a person who believes in deism.

Other Words From

• de·istic de·isti·cal adjective
• de·isti·cal·ly adverb
• non·deist noun
• nonde·istic adjective
• nonde·isti·cal adjective
• nonde·isti·cal·ly adverb
• unde·isti·cal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of deist¹

1555–65; < Middle French déiste < Latin de ( us ) god + French -iste -ist

Example Sentences

It is no perplexity that a man may get rid of by ceasing to be a Christian, and which has no existence for a philosophic Deist.

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His religion had been outwardly that of a deist; he now professed a piety which he always felt but rarely practised.

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It would give you, and Jardine, and Robertson, great satisfaction to find that there is not a single deist among them.

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Nobody, henceforth, need be afraid to patronize me, either as a Scotchman or a Deist.

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Is not the theologian's God, as well as that of the deist, a cause incompatible with the effects attributed to it?

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