eternalist

English

Etymology

eternal +‎ -ist

Noun

eternalist (plural eternalists)

1. One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity.
   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     But if they believe neither paſt nor to come, in a natural ſence, but an unchangeable ſtate of Nature from the Creation to its annihilation, I leave them then to their Fellow Eternaliſts in the Text, […]

2. A believer in eternalism.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “eternalist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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