mortalismn.
/ˈmɔːtəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈmɔːtl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈmɔrdəˌlɪz(ə)m/ Now chiefly historical.
The belief that the soul is mortal and dies with the body, or lies unconscious until the final resurrection.
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thanatism1900
1646 T. Edwards Gangræna: Pt. 1 114 From that he fell to Anabaptisme..and to Mortalisme, holding the Soul Mortall.
1966 Philos. Rev. 75 99 Farrer shrinks..from the Hobbist mortalism that would naturally go with this Rylean view of body and mind.
1977 N. T. Burns (title) Christian mortalism from Tyndale to Milton.
1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 June 655/4 Donne's early and continuing interest in the heresy of mortalism.
1993 Past & Present Aug. 185 (note) There were two other forms of mortalism: thnetopsychism..and psychopannychism, the belief that the soul continues to exist, but in an unconscious state, until the Resurrection.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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