nullifidian

American  

[nuhl-uh-fid-ee-uhn] / ˌnʌl əˈfɪd i ən /

noun

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

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nullifidian British  

/ ˌnʌlɪˈfɪdɪən /

noun

1. a person who has no faith or belief; sceptic; disbeliever

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adjective

1. having no faith or belief

Etymology

Origin of nullifidian

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

Example Sentences

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."

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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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."

From Project Gutenberg

"Which I will leave open, in case thou shouldst holla for assistance, as yonder Nullifidian hath it—But how hast thou got all this so well put in order, good patron?"

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