deist

[ dee-ist ]

/ ˈdi ɪst /

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noun

a person who believes in deism.

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Origin of deist

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

de·is·tic, de·is·ti·cal, adjectivede·is·ti·cal·ly, adverbnon·de·ist, nounnon·de·is·tic, adjective

non·de·is·ti·cal, adjectivenon·de·is·ti·cal·ly, adverbun·de·is·ti·cal, adjective

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.
Aids to Reflection|Samuel Taylor Coleridge
His religion had been outwardly that of a deist; he now professed a piety which he always felt but rarely practised.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte|William Milligan Sloane
It would give you, and Jardine, and Robertson, great satisfaction to find that there is not a single deist among them.
Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume II (of 2)|John Hill Burton
Nobody, henceforth, need be afraid to patronize me, either as a Scotchman or a Deist.
Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume II (of 2)|John Hill Burton

Is not the theologian's God, as well as that of the deist, a cause incompatible with the effects attributed to it?
Good Sense|Paul Henri Thiry, Baron D'Holbach