mortalist

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English

Etymology

From mortal +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

Noun

mortalist (plural mortalists)

  1. (now chiefly historical) Someone who believes that the soul is mortal like the body.

Adjective

mortalist (comparative more mortalist, superlative most mortalist)

  1. (now chiefly historical) Pertaining to this doctrine of mortalism.
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 164:
      Both Anabaptists and Familists sympathised with the ‘mortalist’ doctrine that the soul slept until the Day of Judgement []