cataclysmistn.
/katəˈklɪzmɪst/ One who adopts the hypothesis of cataclysms in Geology; a ‘catastrophist’.
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1887 Athenæum 24 Sept. 410/3 In 1865 the battle of the ‘Uniformitarians’ and ‘Cataclysmists’, ‘Sub-aërialists’ and ‘Marinists’, was still raging.
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