mortalist
English
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editNoun
editmortalist (plural mortalists)
- (now chiefly historical) Someone who believes that the soul is mortal like the body. [from 17th c.]
Adjective
editmortalist (comparative more mortalist, superlative most mortalist)
- (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 […]