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eternalist

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth But if they believe neither past nor to come, in a natural sence, but an unchangeable state of Nature from the Creation to its annihilation, I leave them then to their Fellow Eternalists in the Text, [...]

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noun

Meaning 2

A believer in eternalism.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Etymology

From eternal + -ist.