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Meanings of freethinker in English

Portuguese
deísta
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A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it.

deísta
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Examples for "deist"
Examples for "deist"
1
Condorcet, another deist, was the successor of Voltaire in the Encyclopædic warfare.
The Necessity of Atheism
2
He would have knocked down a deist as soon as looked at him.
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 01
3
He hated the insolent creed of the deist, and the ignorance of the agnostic.
The First Soprano
4
They are real children; a child is neither atheist nor deist, he is nothing.
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
5
Vaguely deist, he saw in Jesus Christ only a wise man among the wise.
Saint Augustin
Usage of freethinker in English
1
Ray was a freethinker, and inconsistently believed himself damned for being one.
The Song of the Lark
2
We know he was a freethinker who said there was no supreme being.
Leaving Time
3
The point in this was that Edward Kallem was a freethinker.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction
4
And then there is literacy, that great gift of the freethinker.
Ecological intelligence: rediscovering ourselves in nature (easy...
5
The work of a musical freethinker, a master of the unexpected?
The Irish Times
6
Let us say it is I that am the freethinker, then.
An Enemy of the People
7
Only an ignorant and fanatical freethinker from the country town of Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 / Little Jou...
8
He was considered a great freethinker among his colleagues, the priests.
The Created Legend
9
Socrates is nowhere represented to us as a freethinker or sceptic.
Apology
10
The modern freethinker does not attack it; he explains it.
On Compromise
11
He is also a member of a Masonic society and is a known freethinker.
What alice knew: a most curious tale of henry james & jack the r...
12
The contadino had become a freethinker since the accession of the house of Savoy.
The Parisians — Volume 11
13
The freethinker should be very particular as to his morals.
Recollections of My Youth
14
Abberline muttered, "First a religious zealot; now a freethinker," but was ignored.
What alice knew: a most curious tale of henry james & jack the r...
15
Hunyadi, or Kalimann, was regarded in Hort as a freethinker.
Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1
16
It is, indeed, by no means improbable that Temple may have been a freethinker.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
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Portuguese
deísta
Freethinker through the time
Freethinker across language varieties
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