Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who denies the existence of the soul after death; one who denies immortality. Specifically In theology, one who believes that annihilation is the final doom of the incorrigibly wicked.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Theol.) One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.
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- noun A person who believes that eternal
punishment is theannihilation of both thebody and thesoul
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Examples
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They were infected with the deadly bacillus of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that turned "annihilationist" when the time was ripe.
'Hitler's Willing Executioners': An Exchange Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah 1997
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But if half of the electorate wanted this bloodthirsty jihadi annihilationist, then what led to all the unrest?
Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010
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But if half of the electorate wanted this bloodthirsty jihadi annihilationist, then what led to all the unrest?
Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010
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Second, while referring to the Hamas Charter and acknowledging its "vile annihilationist language," Mr. Cohen treats it as one in a series of each side's complaints against the other.
'Eyeless in Gaza': An Exchange Harris, David A. 2009
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One could be an annihilationist and believe in an intermediate state before final destruction, or one could believe in instant destruction upon death.
Failing the Fundamentalist Final James F. McGrath 2009
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But what of the intolerable Hamas Qassam rockets on the Israeli city Sderot, the fourteen Israelis killed by those rockets since 2005 (four of them in the current violence), the vile annihilationist language of the Hamas Charter?
Eyeless in Gaza Cohen, Roger 2009
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It perfectly possible to be an annihilationist who believes that the souls of the wicked will be destroyed one day at the judgment therefore not being immortal and also believe that they exist in a conscious state until that judgment.
Faith in Vane? James F. McGrath 2009
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I would label myself an annihilationist...though I tend to lean more towards something called conditional immortality which posits that humans are mortal beings and God is the only eternal person.
Failing the Fundamentalist Final James F. McGrath 2009
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It's important to decide what's more significant: the annihilationist anti-Israel ranting, the Holocaust denial and other Iranian provocations -- or the fact of a Jewish community living, working and worshipping in relative tranquillity.
See No Evil 2009
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Suppress Voice of Dissent in Bengal Murders are common for CPM We killed less than a dozen village leaders or bad gentry or informers who incidentally were CPIM members or ‘Marxist’s sarkari men, and now Anil Biswas is trying to label us as annihilationist.
A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007
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