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Deist   /dˈiɪst/   Listen
Deist

noun
1.
A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it.  Synonym: freethinker.





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"Deist" Quotes from Famous Books



... Signior Caraccioli, who was as ambitious as he was irreligious, had, by this Time, made a perfect Deist of Misson, and thereby convinc'd him, that all Religion was no other than human Policy, and shew'd him that the Law of Moses was no more than what were necessary, as well for the Preservation as the Governing of the People; for Instance, said he, the African Negroes never ...
— Of Captain Mission • Daniel Defoe


Words linked to "Deist" :   nonreligious person, deism


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