[Ads-l] Antedating of "Nihilist"

[Shapiro, Fred]

nihilist (OED 1854)

1832 _Asiatic Journal_ 1 Dec. (19th Century U.K. Periodicals)  Europeans ... boldly ascribed to these authors the most false and extravagant opinions: they were materialists, atheists, nihilists, astrologers, magicians.


Fred Shapiro

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