deist

[ dee-ist ]

noun
  1. a person who believes in deism.

Origin of deist

1
1555–65; <Middle French déiste<Latin de(us) god + French -iste-ist

Other words from deist

  • de·is·tic, de·is·ti·cal, adjective
  • de·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb
  • non·de·ist, noun
  • non·de·is·tic, adjective
  • non·de·is·ti·cal, adjective
  • non·de·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb
  • un·de·is·ti·cal, adjective

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How to use deist in a sentence

  • It is no perplexity that a man may get rid of by ceasing to be a Christian, and which has no existence for a philosophic deist.

    Aids to Reflection | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • His religion had been outwardly that of a deist; he now professed a piety which he always felt but rarely practised.

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan Sloane
  • It would give you, and Jardine, and Robertson, great satisfaction to find that there is not a single deist among them.

  • Nobody, henceforth, need be afraid to patronize me, either as a Scotchman or a deist.

  • Is not the theologian's God, as well as that of the deist, a cause incompatible with the effects attributed to it?

    Good Sense | Paul Henri Thiry, Baron D'Holbach