Hobbist

English

Etymology

From Hobbes +‎ -ist.

Noun

Hobbist (plural Hobbists)

1. One who follows the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes; a Hobbesian.

   Synonyms: Hobbesian, Hobbesist

   • 1690, Richard Baxter, The English Nonconformity, As under King Charles II. and King James II. Truly Stated and Argued […] , page 265:

     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

Hobbist (comparative more Hobbist, superlative most Hobbist)

1. Hobbesian.
   • 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 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 — see Hobbesian

Anagrams

• hobbits