Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of no faith or religion.
- noun One who has no faith; an unbeliever; an infidel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of no faith; also, not trusting to faith for salvation; -- opposed to
solifidian . - noun An unbeliever.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sceptic ; anunbeliever oratheist . - adjective Of no
faith orreligion . - adjective Not trusting to faith for
salvation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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No man with a scrap of imagination could look into the dimpled face of a little girl I know and hurl 'nullifidian' at her.
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I fear treachery to the host from this nullifidian Achan — Thou shalt not go with him.
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A man may be content to remain a nullifidian; women cannot rest at that stage.
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She was disposed rather to accuse the intolerable narrowness and the purblind conscience of the society around her: and 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."
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I am inclined to commend a Hajj to Bloomsbury for every adolescent in the land - though that thought is immediately crushed by my awareness that with the death of education in our nullifidian society, these adolescents, deprived of what was once every Englishman's cultural background, will recognise none of the elements common to Jewry, Christianity and Islam, and will lack the curiosity to respond to stimulus.
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I fear treachery to the host from this nullifidian Achan -- Thou shalt not go with him.
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I fear treachery to the host from this nullifidian Achan -- Thou shalt not go with him.
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Again, some sceptical nullifidian or other may be ready to object farther, "That many things related in this collection smell too much of enthusiasm; and that several other things narrated therein, are beyond all credit."
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#13 | Posted by nullifidian at 2010-04-02 11: 17 AM
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Just his offspring. (via Twitter) @nullifidian I think its a shame.
whichbe commented on the word nullifidian
One of no faith or religion; a skeptic in matters of religion, a disbeliever.
May 13, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word nullifidian
Is this the same as atheist?
December 23, 2010