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English
Etymology
Hobbes + -ist
Noun
Hobbist (plural Hobbists)
- One who follows the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes; a Hobbesian.
- Synonyms: Hobbesian, Hobbesist
1690, Richard Baxter, The English Nonconformity, As under King Charles II. and King James II. Truly Stated and Argued , page 265:Many of the accused were Hobbists and Infidels, and some common ill-living Protestants: Shall all the Hobbists, and Infidels, and ill-living Protestants be Extirpated for their faults?
Adjective
Hobbist (comparative more Hobbist, superlative most Hobbist)
- Hobbesian.
1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 177:He had a Hobbist vision of ‘the whole world consuming in the fire of envy one against another’, from which quietism was the only escape.
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