destructionist
Meanings
noun
- One who delights in destroying that which is valuable, or whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing social, economic or political institutions.
- One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; an annihilationist, a conditionalist (i.e., a believer in conditional immortality).
Word forms
Etymology
From destruction + -ist. UK, 1800s. Political sense 1840s.
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