materialist

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Radical ideas -- materialist, atheistic ideas -- were infecting the working class, leading many to expect (or fear) revolutionary change.

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  1. One who holds or advocates any form of metaphysical materialism. He who denies spirit in man or in the universe is a perfect materialist. Fleming, Vocab. of Philos.
  2. One who is absorbed by material interests; one who takes a low, material view of life. Persons who worship nothing but worldly success, who care for nothing but wealth, or fashionable display, or personal celebrity, or sensual gratification, are thus loosely called materialists. J. Fiske, Cosmic Philos., II. 433.
  3. Of or pertaining to materialism; materialistic. The materialist view is quite as imperfect as the spiritualist view. G. H. Lewes, Hist. Philos., II. 753.

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  • The anti-materialist, anti-people, anti-cadre and essentially anti - political method that Avakian has enforced within the RCP has burned people and broken too many comrades 'revolutionary will. —  Kasama
  • Radical ideas -- materialist, atheistic ideas -- were infecting the working class, leading many to expect (or fear) revolutionary change. —  MRZine.org
  • I have always thought the poof objection coming from a materialist is particularly ironic, because materialists have "poofery" built into their science at a very basic level. —  Latest Articles
  • This is the confession of an agnostic materialist -- not of someone who believes that God raised Jesus from the dead, a Christian assured that not even death can separate from the Creator's love those who belong to the risen Christ. —  American Thinker
  • He is deist, pantheist, atheist; he is a materialist--one, however, who conceives matter not as inert, but quick with force. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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  1. = French matérialiste = Spanish Portuguese Italian materialista; as material + -ist.
 

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