nullifidian

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  1. Of no faith or religion. A solifidean Christian is a nullifidean pagan, and confutes his tongue with his hand. Feltham, Resolves, ii. 47.
  2. One who has no faith; an unbeliever; an infidel. I am a Nulli-fidian, if there be not three-thirds of a scruple more of sampsuchinum in this confection than ever I put in any. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. Celia was no longer the eternal cherub, but a thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the “Pilgrim's Progress.” George Eliot, Middlemarch, i. 4.

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  • Republicans / Bush / Pelosi, etc. #12 | Posted by nullifidian at 2008-10-01 —  Drudge Retort
  • Just his offspring. (via Twitter) @nullifidian I think its a shame. —  Planet Atheism
  • No man with a scrap of imagination could look into the dimpled face of a little girl I know and hurl 'nullifidian' at her. —  Mushrooms on the Moor
  • Can anybody imagine John Wesley talking to his summer-evening crowd at Dublin about 'nullifidian,' or quoting German? —  Mushrooms on the Moor
  • Dublin about 'nullifidian,' or quoting German? —  Mushrooms on the Moor
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  1. from Latin nullus, not any, none, + fides, faith, trust: see faith.
 

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