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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

anticreator en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + creator.

Meanings

  1. One who opposes a creator.
    • Rejected, Faust and Mephistopheles have taken the position diametrically opposed to the Creator and have become "anticreators," destroying instead of making. 1971, Twayne's World Authors Series, volume 135, page 116:
    • Indeed, in many ancient systems the world was thought to be the result of a dramatic conflict of wills, specifically, a primordial clash between a benevolent creator and a malevolent anticreator in which the creator prevailed and transformed the matter of the anticreator into the various components of the universe. 2013, Bernard F. Batto, In the Beginning, page 10:

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