atheism

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

A'THEISM, noun The disbelief of the existence of a God, or Supreme intelligent Being. Atheism is a ferocious system that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us, to awaken tenderness.
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