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nullifidian

[ nuhl-uh-fid-ee-uhn ]

noun

  1. a person who has no faith or religion; skeptic.


nullifidian

/ ˌnʌlɪˈfɪdɪən /

noun

  1. a person who has no faith or belief; sceptic; disbeliever
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. having no faith or belief
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nullifidian1

1555–65; nulli- + Latin fid- (stem of fidēs ) faith + -ian
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nullifidian1

C16: from Latin, from nullus no + fidēs faith
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Example Sentences

Nullifidian, nul-i-fid′i-an, adj. having no faith.—n. a person in such a condition.

Again, some sceptical nullifidian or other may be ready to object farther, "That many things related in this collection smell too much of enthusiasm; and that several other things narrated therein, are beyond all credit."

Can anybody imagine John Wesley talking to his summer-evening crowd at Dublin about 'nullifidian,' or quoting German?

No man with a scrap of imagination could look into the dimpled face of a little girl I know and hurl 'nullifidian' at her.

She was disposed rather to accuse the intolerable narrowness and the purblind conscience of the society around her: and Celia was no longer the eternal cherub, but a thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the "Pilgrim's Progress."

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