comte
noun
Example Sentences
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He was a devoted and Orthodox Comtist, for whom Edwardes had provided an outlet for the philanthropic passion, as he had for many others belonging to far stranger and remoter faiths.
From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward
I had been working at some Comtist literature, and had found a reference to Mr. Truelove's shop as one at which Comtist publications might be bought.
From Autobiographical Sketches by Annie Wood Besant
The Comtist replies that the task is philosophic, and is not to be judged by the minute accuracies of science.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 10: Auguste Comte by John Morley
If Comtism had spread the world would have been converted, not by the Comtist philosophy, but by the Comtist calendar.
From Heretics by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
One variety, however, the Comtist, far exceeds all the rest in the lengths to which it is carried by this propensity.
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton
