destructionist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who delights in destroying that which is valuable, or whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing social, economic or political institutions.
  2. 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

destructionist destructionists

Etymology

From destruction + -ist. UK, 1800s. Political sense 1840s.

Related words

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