comte
noun
Example Sentences
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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
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 mother of Tennyson had not been an Agnostic or a Comtist; his father had not been a staunch true-blue anti- Englander.
From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
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
One day I appear to him to be Catholic, the next Comtist, the next Orthodox Greek, the next a convert to the Anglican communion.
From The Autobiography of a Slander by Edna Lyall
