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Nihilist

noun
1.
Someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief.
2.
An advocate of anarchism.  Synonyms: anarchist, syndicalist.






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"Nihilist" Quotes from Famous Books



... family were wrecked in their special train at Borki, many of their attendants were killed; and the world generally, including the immediate survivors of the catastrophe, believed for some time that it was the result of a nihilist plot. There was, therefore, a general sweeping into prison of subordinat'e railway officials; and among these was De Witte, then in charge of a railway station. During the examinations which ensued ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White

... have lost their faith in "Old School" methods of treatment have swung around to the other extreme of medical nihilism. In fact, Dr. Osler himself stands accused of being a medical nihilist. ...
— Nature Cure • Henry Lindlahr

... Alexander II, who gained fame as liberator of the serfs, and died the victim of a Nihilist bomb thrower. Alexander III succeeded him, and then came Nicholas II, the last Czar, whose reign lasted 22 years. The beginning of the end was marked by the request of the workingmen in 1905 for an increase in civil rights. ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller



Words linked to "Nihilist" :   tucker, Emma Goldman, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, anarchist, Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin, Vanzetti, Goldman, Benjamin Ricketson Tucker, Nicola Sacco, Kropotkin, Sacco, Mikhail Bakunin, Prince Peter Kropotkin, syndicalist, nihilism, radical, nonreligious person, Bakunin



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