"evilist" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: evilists [plural]
Etymology: From evil + -ist. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|evil|ist}} evil + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} evilist (plural evilists)
  1. (rare) An evil person; one who performs evil acts or promotes an evil ideology. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-evilist-en-noun-pH2Qd4-g
  2. One who studies or believes in evil.
    Sense id: en-evilist-en-noun-6hMUTZLw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ist, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 73 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ist: 27 73 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 25 75 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 24 76
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: lesser evilist

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1910, Thomas Dreier, Heroes of Insurgency, page 82:",
          "text": "To the evilists he is cold, pitiless, and insatiable. He seems to be justice incarnate.",
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          "ref": "2009, Steven S. Schneiderman, Wastelanders, page 72:",
          "text": "Louie Leppedimay was getting dried out; thirsty from the excitement of maybe working for a company that ran evilists into the gaping jaws of justice.",
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          "ref": "2010(?), Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters, Penguin",
          "text": "Practically speaking—that evilists should go down with the ship, […] great long letter you mistake me for an evilist because I am no longer a professed dovist."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, O.Y. ven Ghaydle, America and the Entire World Need YOU to Know to Spread the Word:",
          "text": "We must not sell our souls to any 'god' of this world. The evilists will be punished most harshly.",
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          "text": "William Golding is held to be the arch-evilist. His declared aim is to reveal the human potential for wickedness so as to arm man against his own worst self.",
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          "ref": "1922, The Sphere of the National Government in Judicial Administration in China, page 8:",
          "text": "The Evilist School. In contrast with the Chinese Locke who maintains human nature is good and pure, there was a Chinese Hobbes, Hsun Tze.",
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          "ref": "2020, Joe Milburn, Evilism and the a priori:",
          "text": "I argue that while there are credible a priori grounds for believing that the first cause is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good, there are no credible a priori grounds for believing that the first cause is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-evil. Because of this, theists have a reason for explaining away the a posteriori evidence against theism. The hypothetical evilist, on the other hand, does not.",
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          "ref": "2009, Steven S. Schneiderman, Wastelanders, page 72:",
          "text": "Louie Leppedimay was getting dried out; thirsty from the excitement of maybe working for a company that ran evilists into the gaping jaws of justice.",
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          "ref": "2010(?), Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters, Penguin",
          "text": "Practically speaking—that evilists should go down with the ship, […] great long letter you mistake me for an evilist because I am no longer a professed dovist."
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          "ref": "2019, O.Y. ven Ghaydle, America and the Entire World Need YOU to Know to Spread the Word:",
          "text": "We must not sell our souls to any 'god' of this world. The evilists will be punished most harshly.",
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