Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who holds fanciful or ungrounded opinions. Bp. Hopkins, Expos. of the Lord's Prayer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One whose opinions are ungrounded notions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One whose
opinions areungrounded notions .
Etymologies
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notion + -ist
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Examples
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He went on to upbraid me as a flashy notionist and yet, even so, I was constrained to listen to him in silence. '
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And further, a notionist, though he fall from his former strictness and seeming holiness, and appear more loose, and vain in his practices, yet speaks as confidently of himself, as to assurance of salvation, the love of God, and union with God, as ever.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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