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Definition of Deist

1. Adjective. Of or relating to deism.

2. Noun. A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it.

Definition of Deist

1. n. One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.

Definition of Deist

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of deist) ¹

2. Noun. A person who believes in deism. ¹

3. Adjective. Of or relating to deism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deist

1. an adherent of deism [n -S] : DEISTIC [adj] - See also: deism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deist

deionizers deionizes deionizing deiparous deipnophobia deipnophobias deipnosophist deipnosophistry deipnosophists deiseal

deiseals deisheal deisheals deism deisms deist (current term) deistic deistical deistically deists

deiterospinal tract deiters nucleus deities deity deitylike deixes deixis deixises deja voulu deja vu

Literary usage of Deist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1885)
"Ten years ago Timothy Dwight, of Connecticut, denounced Charles Pinckney as a deist; nay, called him one in the poem " The Triumph of Infidelity. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Voltaire was to the end a deist of the school of Bolingbroke ; Rousseau could hare claimed kindred with the nobler deists. Diderot was for a tune heartily ..."

3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"Heinecken mentions amongst his portraits those of ' Thomas Chubb the deist,'of'Thomas Holies, duke of Newcastle,' of ' Charles, Lord Talbot,' and of ..."

4. An apology for the Bible, in a series of letters addressed to T. Paine by Richard Watson (1808)
"You profess yourself to be a deist, and to believe that there is a God, who created the universe, and established the laws of nature, by which it is ..."

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