Hobbist

English Etymology From en Hobbes ist. Noun One who follows the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes; a Hobbesian. en Hobbesian Hobbesist No Innate Practical Principles 5 17 [I]f a Chriſtian, vvho has the view of Happineſs and Miſery in another Life, be asked vvhy a Man muſt keep his VVord, he vvill give this as a Reaſon: Becauſe God, vvho has the Povver of eternal Life and Death, requires it of us. But if an Hobbiſt be asked vvhy; he vvill anſvver, Becauſe the Publick requires it, and the Leviathan vvill puniſh you, if you do not. en 1690 w:Richard Baxter The English Nonconformity, As under King Charles II. and King James II. Truly Stated and Argued 265 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0kxWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA265 Many of the accused were Hobbists and Infidels, and some common ill-living Protestants: Shall all the Hobbists, and Infidels, and ill-living Protestants be Extirpated for their faults? Adjective Hobbesian. en 1972 Christopher Hill (historian) Christopher Hill The World Turned Upside Down Folio Society 2016 177 He had a Hobbist vision of ‘the whole world consuming in the fire of envy one against another’, from which quietism was the only escape. Translations Hobbesian Anagrams en bbhiost hobbits en eponyms