Destructionist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Destructionist is a noun meaning (politics, chiefly derogatory) One who delights in destroying that which is valuable, or whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing social, economic or political institutions.
Meaning
(politics, chiefly derogatory) One who delights in destroying that which is valuable, or whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing social, economic or political institutions.
More Meanings
- (theology) One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; an annihilationist, a conditionalist (i.e., a believer in conditional immortality).
Example Sentences
The Destructionist and Annihilationist heretics have drawn their doctrines very fairly from the language of the Gospels and Epistles
The foreign and literal warfare, meantime, is a thousand times more desirable than the intestine warfare between the Destructionist and the Conservative.
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.
Word Forms
- destructionists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include antideconstructionist, deteriorist, denigrator, self-destroyer, liberticide, deteriorationist.
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