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plural nullifidians
(archaic) A sceptic; an atheist or unbeliever. quotations
[...] 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.'
1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter IV, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, book I, page 56
A man may be content to remain a nullifidian; women cannot rest at that stage. They demand the spiritual significance of everything.
1892, George Gissing, Born in Exile
Of no faith or religion; not trusting to faith for salvation. examples