destructionist

plural destructionists

1. derogatorygovernmentOne who delights in destroying that which is valuable, or whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing social, economic or political institutions.

   The foreign and literal warfare, meantime, is a thousand times more desirable than the intestine warfare between the Destructionist and the Conservative.

   September 1841, “Sir Robert Peel’s position on next resuming power”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 50, number 311, page 407

2. lifestyleOne who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; an annihilationist, a conditionalist (i.e., a believer in conditional immortality).

   The Destructionist and Annihilationist heretics have drawn their doctrines very fairly from the language of the Gospels and Epistles

   1850, Reasoner

   1 more example

   The great Dr. Watts may be considered, in some measure, a destructionist; since it was his opinion that the children of ungodly parents who die in infancy are annihilated.

   1807, Charles Buck, A Theological Dictionary, page 229