Eternalist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity.
"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, […]"
- 2 A believer in eternalism.
Example
More 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, […]"
Etymology
From eternal + -ist.
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