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Definition of Optimists
1. optimist [n] - See also: optimist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Optimists
Literary usage of Optimists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters on England by Louis Blanc (1867)
"THE Liberal party in England has its optimists, like the Conservative party.
This is proved by the excessive kindliness of the remarks occasioned, ..."
2. History of Economic Thought: A Critical Account of the Origin and by Lewis Henry Haney (1920)
"... CHAPTER XIV BASTIAT AND THE FRENCH Optimists Bastiat's Life and Writings.
— Frederic Bastiat ' was born in 1801. in Bayonne, France. ..."
3. Promise and Problems of E-Democracy: Challenges of Online Citizen Engagement by OECD Staff, Oecd (2003)
"Optimists and pessimists Norris (2001) and others note the views of pessimists
who fear an escalation of existing inequalities and optimists who hold that ..."
4. History of Colorado by Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)
"He is a member of the Optimists Club of Denver, also of the Denver Motor Club
and of the Civic and Commercial Association, and he Is interested in all that ..."
5. Travel and Talk, 1885-93-95: My Hundred Thousand Miles of Travel Through by Hugh Reginald Haweis (1897)
"Yes, the Franciscans are optimists. Rotten old pessimistic civilisation, have
you nothing to learn from these eager young new-world communities ? ..."
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