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The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being. Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. R. Hall. Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded. Shipley.

Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; -- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books. Atheistical explications of natural effects. Barrow.

To confute; to prove the fallacy of. [Obs.] God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. Bacon.

he formation of the world independently of God; world-forming. "Cosmoplastic and hylozoic atheisms." Gudworth.

Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism. The downright impossibilities charged upon it. South. Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity. Prescott. -- Down"right`ly, adv. -- Down"right`ness, n.

ne. Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud. Burke. To explode and exterminate dark atheism. Bently.

lony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley.

led with a false opinion of his own value or importance. Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge . . . of wit. South. To take huff, to take offence. Cowper.

ds and flesh, such as their haste could get, Served with observance. Chapman. This is not atheism, But court observance. Beau. & Fl.

Anything which induces rest or inaction; that which quiets uneasiness. They chose atheism as an opiate. Bentley.

The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism.