Noun: nullifidian
| Singular | nullifidian |
| Plural | nullifidians |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonyms: infidel, apostate, heretic (either coordinate or synonymous depending on the beliefs of the speaker or writer)
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[...] Celia was no longer the eternal cherub, but a thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the 'Pilgrim's Progress.' [1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter IV, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 56:]
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A man may be content to remain a nullifidian; women cannot rest at that stage. They demand the spiritual significance of everything. [1892, George Gissing, Born in Exile:]
Nouns inflected like nullifidian
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin nūllus (“not any”) + fidēs (“faith”) + -ian. See: Latin Nouns '
nūllus'.