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deïst

deïst is the rare spelling of deist.

Meaning of deist

Noun

deist (plural deists)

  1. A person who believes in deism.
    • It was reason that led most of the Enlightenment thinkers to repudiate a belief in an anthropomorphic God who took an interest in human affairs.⁶ The application of reason revealed that reports of miracles were dubious, that the authors of holy books were all too human, that natural events unfolded...2018, Steven Pinker, “Chapter 1: Dare to Understand!; Chapter 2: Entro, Evo, Info”, in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Penguin, →ISBN
    Antonyms:
    antideist, nondeist

See all 3 meanings of deist

Forms of deïst

pluraldeïsts

Questions about deïst

What is deïst the rare spelling of?
Deïst is the rare spelling of deist.

Words near deïst in the dictionary

  1. deëmphasize
  2. deëmphasized
  3. deëmphasizes
  4. deëmphasizing
  5. deësis
  6. deïst
  7. deïsts
  8. Dežanovac
  9. df
  10. DFA
  11. DFAB

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deïst (page history and authors); deist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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