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nonsupernaturalist en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + supernaturalist.

Meanings

1. Someone who does not believe in the supernatural.
   • On the contrary, one thing that seemed reasonably clear to supernaturalists and nonsupernaturalists alike was that the biblical authors truly believed the facticity of what they were reporting. 2011, Robert H. Stein, A Basic Guide to Interpreting the Bible: Playing by the Rules, →ISBN, page 155:
   • For those who did believe in God, "there were the supernaturalists, and the nonsupernaturalists, which is to say those who thought that we can perfectly well deal with god languages, god talk, in ways that don't have to refer to a spirit being out there. 1988 November 4, Bill Wyman, “Do You Believe in Magic?”, in Chicago Reader:
   • The degree to which nonsupernaturalists and Neopagans may also legitimately be considered millennialist is less clear. 2011, Catherine Wessinger, The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism, →ISBN, page 651:

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