Noun

(en noun)

One who believes in the existence of a god or gods.

* 1999 , Jeaneane D. Fowler, Humanism: Beliefs & Practices, page 66

The term stands in contradistinction to theism which, in its widest sense, means belief in a personal god, goddess, gods and /or goddesses.

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, year = 1764 , author = Voltaire , title = Philosophical Dictionary , url = http://www.online-literature.com/voltaire/philosophical-dictionary/91/ , passage = The theist is a man firmly persuaded of the existence of a Supreme Being as good as He is powerful, who has formed all beings with extension, vegetating, sentient and reflecting; who perpetuates their species, who punishes crimes without cruelty, and rewards virtuous actions with kindness. }}

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, year = 1854 , title = Speculative Atheism , first = Theodore , last = Parker , editors = Linton, W. J. , magazine = The English Republic , volume = 3 , page = 205 , passage = and I call him a theist who believes in any God. }}

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, year = 1870 , title = An Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent , first = John Henry , last = Newman , page = 119 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=YEkXAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA119 , passage = No one is to be called a Theist , who does not believe in a Personal God, whatever difficulty there may be in defining the word "Personal." }}

Noun

(en noun)

A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

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(slang) A heist film: a film whose plot centers around an attempted robbery.

* 2008 March 6, Robert Wilonsky, "Fast and Loose", '' volume 32 number 10, page 28,

The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists .