Theol. [f. as prec. + -IST.] One who maintains the eventual annihilation of the wicked. Often attrib.
1842. D. Thom, Div. Inversion, App. 278. Notwithstanding the animadversions upon the views of annihilationists.
1875. Baldw. Brown, in Minton, Life & Death (1877), 66. These annihilationists are pitiless.
1880. Academy, 23 Oct., 285/1. Objections … urged before by Universalist and Annihilationist controversialists—against the doctrine of eternal punishment.
