Evilist

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An evil person; one who performs evil acts or promotes an evil ideology. rare

    "To the evilists he is cold, pitiless, and insatiable. He seems to be justice incarnate."

  2. 2
    One who studies or believes in evil.

    "William Golding is held to be the arch-evilist. His declared aim is to reveal the human potential for wickedness so as to arm man against his own worst self."

Example

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"To the evilists he is cold, pitiless, and insatiable. He seems to be justice incarnate."

Etymology

From evil + -ist. Piecewise doublet of evilista.

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