I came across the word “nullifidian” in George Eliot’s Middlemarch. I don’t believe I’d ever heard it before. It sounded charmingly Victorian and rather insulting and I had to look it up. Turns out a nullifidian is a religious skeptic, a person with no faith or belief. Basically an archaic version of “atheist.” A spectacular word and, in my opinion, closer to an endearment than an insult.
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