mortalist

English

Etymology

From mortal +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɔːtəlɪst/

Noun

mortalist (plural mortalists)

  1. (now chiefly historical) Someone who believes that the soul is mortal like the body. [from 17th c.]

Adjective

mortalist (comparative more mortalist, superlative most mortalist)

  1. (now chiefly historical) Pertaining to this doctrine of mortalism. [from 18th c.]
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 164:
      Both Anabaptists and Familists sympathised with the ‘mortalist’ doctrine that the soul slept until the Day of Judgement […]
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