"evilist" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "evil + -ist",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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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        "An evil person; one who performs evil acts or promotes an evil ideology."
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        "(rare) An evil person; one who performs evil acts or promotes an evil ideology."
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          "ref": "1987, ZAA - Volumes 35-36, page 10",
          "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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        "One who studies or believes in evil."
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  "etymology_text": "evil + -ist",
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        },
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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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        "An evil person; one who performs evil acts or promotes an evil ideology."
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        "(rare) An evil person; one who performs evil acts or promotes an evil ideology."
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          "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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          "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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        "One who studies or believes in evil."
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