Hobbist

English

Etymology

Hobbes +‎ -ist

Noun

Hobbist (plural Hobbists)

  1. One who follows the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes; a Hobbesian.
    Synonyms: Hobbesian, Hobbesist
    • 1690, Richard Baxter, The English Nonconformity, As under King Charles II. and King James II. Truly Stated and Argued […] , page 265:
      Many of the accused were Hobbists and Infidels, and some common ill-living Protestants: Shall all the Hobbists, and Infidels, and ill-living Protestants be Extirpated for their faults?

Adjective

Hobbist (comparative more Hobbist, superlative most Hobbist)

  1. Hobbesian.
    • 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 177:
      He had a Hobbist vision of ‘the whole world consuming in the fire of envy one against another’, from which quietism was the only escape.

Translations
Hobbesian — see Hobbesian

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