eternalist en · NOUN
Etymology
From eternal + -ist.
Meanings
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One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity.
1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth But if they believe neither paſt nor to come, in a natural ſence, but an unchangeable ſtate of Nature from the Creation to its annihilation, I leave them then to their Fellow Eternaliſts in the Text, […]
- A believer in eternalism.
Forms
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| eternalists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |