Definition of Irreligionist

1. Noun. Someone who is indifferent or hostile to religion.

Generic synonyms: Disbeliever, Nonbeliever, Unbeliever
Derivative terms: Irreligion

Definition of Irreligionist

1. n. One who is irreligious.

Definition of Irreligionist

1. Noun. One who is irreligious. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Irreligionist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Irreligionist

irregulous
irrejectable
irrelapsable
irrelate
irrelation
irrelative
irrelatively
irrelevance
irrelevances
irrelevancies
irrelevancy
irrelevant
irrelevantly
irrelievable
irreligion
irreligionist (current term)
irreligionists
irreligions
irreligious
irreligiously
irreligiousness
irremeable
irremediability
irremediable
irremediableness
irremediably
irremissibility
irremissible
irremissibleness
irremissibly

Literary usage of Irreligionist

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

1. The Ground and Goal of Human Life by Charles Gray Shaw (1919)
"The history of Wagner's Siegfried serves to show how an irreligionist like Wagner can violate the principles of scientific justice for the sake of placing ..."

2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1866)
"It is not chiefly to the existence of God as a person that the modern irreligionist objects, but it is to the use of His influence for moral ends in the way ..."

3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1866)
"It is not chiefly to the existence of God as a person that the modern irreligionist objects, but it is to the use of His influence for moral ends in the way ..."

4. The American First Class Book: Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation by John Pierpont (1835)
"... and enthusiastic irregularities, and when they are all collected, the cold-hearted, thoughtless irreligionist exclaims, these are the fruits of piety! ..."

5. The American First Class Book; Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation (1834)
"... the cold-hearted, thoughtless irreligionist exclaims, these are the fruits of piety! failed to remove, it is most absurdly called the cause. ..."

6. English Style in Public Discourse with Special Reference to the Usages of by Austin Phelps (1883)
"irreligionist is another of the barbarous coinages of recent 3. JEOPARDIZE is an Americanism, coined with the Greek form of termination. ..."

7. The Monthly Religious Magazine (1868)
"... not only because manners are softened, but because the ' irreligionist' of our day feels little o' the hatred of the Church which its strength and abuse ..."

8. The Child and His Religion by George Ellsworth Dawson (1909)
"The extremes of these classes of people are illustrated on the one hand by the irreligionist and on the other by the Chris- ..."

9. The Ground and Goal of Human Life by Charles Gray Shaw (1919)
"The history of Wagner's Siegfried serves to show how an irreligionist like Wagner can violate the principles of scientific justice for the sake of placing ..."

10. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1866)
"It is not chiefly to the existence of God as a person that the modern irreligionist objects, but it is to the use of His influence for moral ends in the way ..."

11. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1866)
"It is not chiefly to the existence of God as a person that the modern irreligionist objects, but it is to the use of His influence for moral ends in the way ..."

12. The American First Class Book: Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation by John Pierpont (1835)
"... and enthusiastic irregularities, and when they are all collected, the cold-hearted, thoughtless irreligionist exclaims, these are the fruits of piety! ..."

13. The American First Class Book; Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation (1834)
"... the cold-hearted, thoughtless irreligionist exclaims, these are the fruits of piety! failed to remove, it is most absurdly called the cause. ..."

14. English Style in Public Discourse with Special Reference to the Usages of by Austin Phelps (1883)
"irreligionist is another of the barbarous coinages of recent 3. JEOPARDIZE is an Americanism, coined with the Greek form of termination. ..."

15. The Monthly Religious Magazine (1868)
"... not only because manners are softened, but because the ' irreligionist' of our day feels little o' the hatred of the Church which its strength and abuse ..."

16. The Child and His Religion by George Ellsworth Dawson (1909)
"The extremes of these classes of people are illustrated on the one hand by the irreligionist and on the other by the Chris- ..."

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