cosmogonist
noun
a specialist or expert in cosmogony.
cosmogonists
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pluralof cosmogonist.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Later cosmogonists discarded this theory mostly because it did not account for the greater angular momentum of the outer planets.
From Time Magazine Archive
I would almost as soon believe with the old and ignorant cosmogonists, that fossil shells had never lived, but had been created in stone so as to mock the shells now living on the seashore.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
The cosmogonists and framers of Theories of the Earth were succeeded by other schools of thought.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
Unfortunately, this and similar ridicule directed against the cosmogonists was too well deserved.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
A striking contrast to these cosmogonists is furnished by another group, which arose in France and Germany, and gave to the world the first rational ideas concerning the probable primeval evolution of our globe.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
