Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is superstitious; one who is bound by religious superstitions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One addicted to superstition.
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- noun obsolete One addicted to
superstition .
Etymologies
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superstition + -ist
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Examples
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Among a certain miserable class, who are more numerous than is commonly supposed, he who believes in a First Cause and a future state is regarded with contempt as a superstitionist.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey 1808
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It is superstitionist goose-steppers like you, who have given true meaning to the term "Bible-Nazi".
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