Meaning

(rare) An evil person; one who performs evil acts or promotes an evil ideology..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) An evil person; one who performs evil acts or promotes an evil ideology.
2. One who studies or believes in evil.

Example Sentences

Practically speaking—that evilists should go down with the ship, […] great long letter you mistake me for an evilist because I am no longer a professed dovist.

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

Louie Leppedimay was getting dried out; thirsty from the excitement of maybe working for a company that ran evilists into the gaping jaws of justice.

We must not sell our souls to any 'god' of this world. The evilists will be punished most harshly.

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.

The Evilist School. In contrast with the Chinese Locke who maintains human nature is good and pure, there was a Chinese Hobbes, Hsun Tze.

I argue that while there are credible a priori grounds for believing that the first cause is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good, there are no credible a priori grounds for believing that the first cause is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-evil. Because of this, theists have a reason for explaining away the a posteriori evidence against theism. The hypothetical evilist, on the other hand, does not.

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