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destructionists

destructionists is the plural of destructionist.

Meaning of destructionist

Noun

destructionist (plural destructionists)

  1. (derogatory) One who delights in destroying that which is valuable, or whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing social, economic or political institutions.
    • The foreign and literal warfare, meantime, is a thousand times more desirable than the intestine warfare between the Destructionist and the Conservative.September 1841, “Sir Robert Peel’s position on next resuming power”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 50, number 311, page 407
  2. One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; an annihilationist, a conditionalist (i.e., a believer in conditional immortality).
    • The great Dr. Watts may be considered, in some measure, a destructionist; since it was his opinion that the children of ungodly parents who die in infancy are annihilated.1807, Charles Buck, A Theological Dictionary, page 229

Questions about destructionists

What is destructionists the plural of?
Destructionists is the plural of destructionist.

Words near destructionists in the dictionary

  1. destruction permit
  2. destruction permits
  3. destructional
  4. destructionism
  5. destructionist
  6. destructionists
  7. destructions
  8. destructive
  9. destructive backspace
  10. destructive backspaces
  11. destructive criticism

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