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mortalist en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmɔːtəlɪst/ (UK)

Etymology

From mortal + -ist.

Meanings

  1. (historical) Pertaining to this doctrine of mortalism.
    • Both Anabaptists and Familists sympathised with the ‘mortalist’ doctrine that the soul slept until the Day of Judgement […] 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 164:

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more mortalist Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most mortalist Degree=Sup lexicographic

mortalist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmɔːtəlɪst/ (UK)

Etymology

From mortal + -ist.

Meanings

  1. (historical) Someone who believes that the soul is mortal like the body.

Forms

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mortalists Number=Plur lexicographic