Crossword clues for freethinker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freethinker \Free"think`er\, n. One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century.
Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker,
child.
--Addison.
Syn: Infidel; skeptic; unbeliever. See Infidel.
Wiktionary
alt. A person who has formed their opinions using reason and rational enquiry; somebody who has rejected dogma, especially with regard to religion. n. A person who has formed their opinions using reason and rational enquiry; somebody who has rejected dogma, especially with regard to religion.
WordNet
n. a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it [syn: deist]
Usage examples of "freethinker".
Governor, has fallen into the company of one Algol, a Freethinker, a grotesque, a perennial problem on the street.
I would persuade all Jews, Mohammedans, Comtists, and freethinkers to turn high Anglicans, or better still, downright Catholics for a week in every year, and I would send people like Mr.
When many clergymen were lecherous drunks, like Churchill and Laurence Sterne, and in addition ministers, were urging mobs to burn women for witchcraft, freethinkers were likely to regard religion with suspicion if not with actual hatred.
The woman who called herself Sappho was a poet and freethinker who moved on the fringes of society in the manner of one who does not care to be involved any further.
And, surely nothing can afford a stronger presumption, that any set of principles are true, and ought to be embraced, than to observe that they tend to the confirmation of true religion, and serve to confound the cavils of Atheists, Libertines, and Freethinkers of all denominations.
And then, if you admitted only Freethinkers among you, I could understand it, but you admit anybody.
These freethinkers, semi-intellectuals all of them, dangle their feet in the waters of thought, though fail to find answers.
Some parents may be proficient and experienced freethinkers, and may never personally experience the terrible consequences of this egotism of theirs.
Thus, if the parents are freethinkers, the children may well abandon thought altogether and become fundamentalists.
Radicals, the freethinkers, scourging his present Party, the party of authority and institutions.
I reflected that a town like Loubain must contain at least a hundred freethinkers, who would have made a point of making a manifestation.
If the Marquis de Fumerol, one of the greatest names in France, were to die without the ministrations of religion, it would assuredly be a terrible blow to the nobility in general, and to the Count de Tourneville in particular, and the freethinkers would be triumphant.
So also the criticisms levelled by Freethinkers at the Doctrine of the Trinity have been merely examples of ignoratio elenchi.
Although they were decentralized and had no overriding political program, the Masons had attracted a fair number of freethinkers, who to some extent took advantage of the group's clandestine character to discuss Enlightenment ideas.
And he told them all about his several dignities, and how he had held this and that and the other place of honor or profit, and had once been to the legislature, and was now president of the Society of Freethinkers.