rare. [f. Gr. ἀ not + δαίμον-α (evil) spirit + -IST.] (See quot.)

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1837.  Pen. Cycl., VIII. 447. Among the German adæmonists, or those who deny the personality of the devil, may also be named Wetstein, Webber, Naudæus … Unitarians, in accordance with the scriptural adæmonists of Germany, maintain that the Bible affords no sufficient evidence of the existence of a being purely malevolent.

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