Word Meanings - DEIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker. Note: A deist, as denying a revelation, is opposed to a Christian; as, opposed to the denier of a God, whether atheist or patheist, a deist is generally

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One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker. Note: A deist, as denying a revelation, is opposed to a Christian; as, opposed to the denier of a God, whether atheist or patheist, a deist is generally denominated theist. Latham. Syn. -- See Infidel.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEIST)

• Sceptic
• Doubter
• infidel
• un believer
• deist

Related words: (words related to DEIST)

• INFIDEL
  Not holding the faith; -- applied esp. to one who does not believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernatural origin of Christianity. The infidel writer is a great enemy to society. V. Knox.
• DEISTICALNESS
  State of being deistical.
• DEISTICALLY
  After the manner of deists.
• BELIEVER
  One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom
• SCEPTIC; SCEPTICAL; SCEPTICISM
  etc. See Skeptic, Skeptical, Skepticism, etc.
• DEIST
  One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker. Note: A deist, as denying a revelation, is opposed to a Christian; as, opposed to the denier of a God, whether atheist or patheist, a deist is generally
• DEISTIC; DEISTICAL
  Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book. The deistical or antichristian scheme. I. Watts.
• DOUBTER
  One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.
• INFIDELITY
  1. Want of faith or belief in some religious system; especially, a want of faith in, or disbelief of, the inspiration of the Scriptures, of the divine origin of Christianity. There is, indeed, no doubt but that vanity is one of the principal causes
• UNBELIEVER
  1. One who does not believe; an incredulous person; a doubter; a skeptic. 2. A disbeliever; especially, one who does not believe that the Bible is a divine revelation, and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person;
• DISBELIEVER
  One who disbelieves, or refuses belief; an unbeliever. Specifically, one who does not believe the Christian religion. I. Watts.
• MISBELIEVER
  One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion. Shak.
• SEMIDEISTICAL
  Half deisticsl; bordering on deism. S. Miller.