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Definition of Demonists
1. demonist [n] - See also: demonist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demonists
Literary usage of Demonists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A View of the Principal Deistical Writers that Have Appeared in England in by John Leland (1837)
"On the other hand, he honours all those that are for positive precepts in religion
with the character of demonists; and he represents divines in all ages, ..."
2. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1840)
"Those who wish for positive precepts in religion, Tindall honors with the name
of demonists, representing them as enemies to the exercise of reason, ..."
3. Christ and Other Masters: An Historical Inquiry Into Some of the Chief by Charles Hardwick, Francis Procter (1882)
"Other persons who were in favour of an external revelation he called ' demonists.'
1 Thus, when Dupuis published Ms ..."
4. The Retrospective Review by Henry Southern (1822)
"... in which Scott gallantly led on the van of the rationalists to the attack;
and Glan- vil as gallantly fought in the rear guard of the routed demonists. ..."
5. The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life by Charles Beard (1864)
"... and evidently believes that popular theologians are Polytheists because they
worship more ruling minds than one, or demonists because they ascribe evil ..."
6. The Church in England from William III, to Victoria by Alexander Hugh Hore (1886)
"All who were opposed to him, and favoured positive precepts in religion, he terms
demonists, and the Clergy of all times he stigmatises as for tlie most ..."
7. A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps by Richard Joseph Sullivan (1794)
"... to be nothing more nor less than demonists. Nay, he represents divines, in
all ages, as, for the most part, mortal enemies to the exercise of reason, ..."
8. The History of Heresies and Their Refutation: Or, The Triumph of the Church by Saint Alfonso Maria de' Liguori (1857)
"The demonists, following the errors of Origen, said the devils would be saved in
the end of the world. The Adamites appeared naked in public, having, ..."
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