cosmistn.
/ˈkɒzmɪst/ A believer in cosmism; a Secularist.
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1861 G. J. Holyoake Limits of Atheism (1874) 11 It is the first instinct of the Cosmist..to keep his mind open to reason.
1861 W. Gresley Sophron & Neologus 68 The Cosmist asks for a proof of the existence of the Great Spirit; he calls on us to prove that the world is not self-existent, self-creating.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Nov. 3/1 The prosecutor..declined to give his evidence on oath because he was a ‘Cosmist’, which he subsequently explained meant ‘much the same as a Secularist or an Agnostic’.
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