Noun:

நம்பிக்கைக் கொள்ளாதவர், நம்பிக்கைகளில் (அ) கொள்கைகளில் ஐயம் கொள்கிறவர், சந்தேகிக்கிறவன், நாஸ்திகன்,

sceptics's Usage Examples:

On the other hand, he came to represent those aspects of Peripateticism most alien to the spirit of Christendom; and the deeply religious Moslem gave his name to the anti-sacerdotal party, to the materialists, sceptics and atheists, who defied or undermined the dominant beliefs of the church.

"Nominalism was a doctrine of sceptics and suspected heretics, such as Berengar of Tours and Roscellinus.

There were numerous sceptics, however, who did not hesitate to assert that the import of the message so obviously locked in these curious inscriptions must for ever remain an absolute mystery.

And, as a matter of fact, it has been seen that many so-called sceptics were rather critics of the effete systems which they found cumbering the ground than actual doubters of the possibility of knowledge in general.

Nominalism was a doctrine of sceptics and suspected heretics, such as Berengar of Tours and Roscellinus.

Even in his time there were sceptics who pointed dubiously to the full-grown bones of "widows" and of men among the so-called virgin relics.

Carneades, practically a 5th-century sophist, is the most important of the ancient sceptics.

"The mahatmas exhibited their " astral bodies " to her, " precipitated " messages which reached her from the confines of Tibet in an instant of time, supplied her with sound doctrine, and incited her to perform tricks for the conversion of sceptics.

Thus the Roman edition contains (of metrical works) exegetical discourses, hymns on the Nativity of Christ, 65 hymns against heretics, 85 on the Faith against sceptics, a discourse against the Jews, 85 funeral hymns, 4 on free-will, 76 exhortations to repentance, 12 hymns on paradise, and 12 on miscellaneous subjects.

The sceptics had declared that the new science of Assyriology was itself a myth: that the investigators, self-deceived, had in reality only invented a language and read into the Assyrian inscriptions something utterly alien to the minds of the Assyrians themselves.

Synonyms:

skeptic, intellectual, pessimist, intellect, doubter, doubting Thomas,

Antonyms:

physical, intellectual, nonintellectual, stupidity, optimist,