apathist

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apathist (plural apathists)

  1. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) One who has no feeling towards anything, or more specifically religion.
    • 1827, Robert Lynam, The British Essayists: Microcosm. Olla podrida, page 14:
      ...Apathist alone, equally superior to the violent attacks of passion, and the teasing impertinence of fretfulness...
    • 1966, Philosophy of Education Society (U.S.). Meeting, Philosophy of Education: Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society:
      ...apathist is thought despicable not simply because he is indifferent but because he is indifferent to something others regard as so vital as to require everyone's or at least certain others' concern.
    • 1808, Lady Morgan (Sydney), The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale, page 200:
      ...apathist, of one "whom man delighteth not, nor woman either."

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