hobbist

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Definition of hobbist

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noun

One who follows the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes; a Hobbesian.

“[I]f a Chriſtian, vvho has the view of Happineſs and Miſery in another Life, be asked vvhy a Man muſt keep his VVord, he vvill give this as a Reaſon: Becauſe God, vvho has the Povver of eternal Life and Death, requires it of us. But if an Hobbiſt be asked vvhy; he vvill anſvver, Becauſe the Publick requires it, and the Leviathan vvill puniſh you, if you do not.”
“Many of the accused were Hobbists and Infidels, and some common ill-living Protestants: Shall all the Hobbists, and Infidels, and ill-living Protestants be Extirpated for their faults?”

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noun

One who follows the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes; a Hobbesian.

“[I]f a Chriſtian, vvho has the view of Happineſs and Miſery in another Life, be asked vvhy a Man muſt keep his VVord, he vvill give this as a Reaſon: Becauſe God, vvho has the Povver of eternal Life and Death, requires it of us. But if an Hobbiſt be asked vvhy; he vvill anſvver, Becauſe the Publick requires it, and the Leviathan vvill puniſh you, if you do not.”
“Many of the accused were Hobbists and Infidels, and some common ill-living Protestants: Shall all the Hobbists, and Infidels, and ill-living Protestants be Extirpated for their faults?”

adj

Hobbesian.

“He had a Hobbist vision of ‘the whole world consuming in the fire of envy one against another’, from which quietism was the only escape.”

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From Hobbes + -ist.

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