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Tom Paine

noun

American Revolutionary leader and pamphleteer (born in England) who supported the American colonist's fight for independence and supported the French Revolution (1737-1809). Synonyms: Paine, Thomas Paine.

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... of the lowest ebb-tide of spiritual life in the history of the American church. The demoralization of army life, the fury of political factions, the catchpenny materialist morality of Franklin, the philosophic deism of men like Jefferson, and the popular ribaldry of Tom Paine, had wrought, together with other untoward influences, to bring about a condition of things which to the eye of little ...

— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon

Words linked to "Tom Paine" : pamphleteer, American Revolutionary leader