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evilutionist

noun

Etymology

Blend of evil + evolutionist.

  1. borrowed from ēvolūtiō
  2. suffixed as evolutionist — “evolution + ist”
  3. compounded as evilutionist — “evil + evolutionist”

Definitions

  1. A supporter of the theory of evolution, regarded as an enemy of religion.

    • In several large cities I was asked to address secret midnight meetings of high school teachers who feared to lose their jobs if seen consorting with an "evilutionist."
    • Originally seen as a great opportunity to do irreparable damage to religious modernists and "evilutionists," the fundamentalists found, instead, that it was they who were injured by the Scopes trial.
    • I is^([sic]) suspicious that many contemporary evilutionists cling to their theory with such tenacity because they don't want to deal with the Ultimate Reality or Truth.

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