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evilist en · NOUN

Etymology

From evil + -ist. Piecewise doublet of evilista.

Meanings

1. (rare) An evil person; one who performs evil acts or promotes an evil ideology.
   • To the evilists he is cold, pitiless, and insatiable. He seems to be justice incarnate. 1910, Thomas Dreier, Heroes of Insurgency, page 82:
   • Louie Leppedimay was getting dried out; thirsty from the excitement of maybe working for a company that ran evilists into the gaping jaws of justice. 2009, Steven S. Schneiderman, Wastelanders, page 72:
   • Practically speaking—that evilists should go down with the ship, […] great long letter you mistake me for an evilist because I am no longer a professed dovist. 2010(?), Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters, Penguin
   • We must not sell our souls to any 'god' of this world. The evilists will be punished most harshly. 2019, O.Y. ven Ghaydle, America and the Entire World Need YOU to Know to Spread the Word:
2. One who studies or believes in evil.
   • The Evilist School. In contrast with the Chinese Locke who maintains human nature is good and pure, there was a Chinese Hobbes, Hsun Tze. 1922, The Sphere of the National Government in Judicial Administration in China, page 8:
   • I argue that while there are credible a priori grounds for believing that the first cause is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good, there are no credible a priori grounds for believing that the first cause is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-evil. Because of this, theists have a reason for explaining away the a posteriori evidence against theism. The hypothetical evilist, on the other hand, does not. 2020, Joe Milburn, Evilism and the a priori:
   • William Golding is held to be the arch-evilist. His declared aim is to reveal the human potential for wickedness so as to arm man against his own worst self. 1987, ZAA - Volumes 35-36, page 10:

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