Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of no faith or religion.
  • noun One who has no faith; an unbeliever; an infidel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of no faith; also, not trusting to faith for salvation; -- opposed to solifidian.
  • noun An unbeliever.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A sceptic; an unbeliever or atheist.
  • adjective Of no faith or religion.
  • adjective Not trusting to faith for salvation.

Etymologies

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From nulli- + Latin fides ("faith") + -ian.

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Examples

  • No man with a scrap of imagination could look into the dimpled face of a little girl I know and hurl 'nullifidian' at her.

    Mushrooms on the Moor Frank Boreham 1915

  • I fear treachery to the host from this nullifidian Achan — Thou shalt not go with him.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • A man may be content to remain a nullifidian; women cannot rest at that stage.

    Born in Exile George Gissing 1880

  • She was disposed rather to accuse the intolerable narrowness and the purblind conscience of the society around her: and Celia was no longer the eternal cherub, but a thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the "Pilgrim's Progress."

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

  • I am inclined to commend a Hajj to Bloomsbury for every adolescent in the land - though that thought is immediately crushed by my awareness that with the death of education in our nullifidian society, these adolescents, deprived of what was once every Englishman's cultural background, will recognise none of the elements common to Jewry, Christianity and Islam, and will lack the curiosity to respond to stimulus.

    Evening Standard - Home Brian Sewell 2012

  • I fear treachery to the host from this nullifidian Achan -- Thou shalt not go with him.

    Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • I fear treachery to the host from this nullifidian Achan -- Thou shalt not go with him.

    Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801

  • Again, some sceptical nullifidian or other may be ready to object farther, "That many things related in this collection smell too much of enthusiasm; and that several other things narrated therein, are beyond all credit."

    Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies John Howie 1764

  • #13 | Posted by nullifidian at 2010-04-02 11: 17 AM

    Drudge Retort rightisright 2010

  • Just his offspring. (via Twitter) @nullifidian I think its a shame.

    Planet Atheism 2009

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  • One of no faith or religion; a skeptic in matters of religion, a disbeliever.

    May 13, 2008

  • Is this the same as atheist?

    December 23, 2010