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Definition of Diffusionists
1. diffusionist [n] - See also: diffusionist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diffusionists
Literary usage of Diffusionists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"... especially since Morgan's own occasional rodomontades about historical connection
put to shame the most swashbuckling of recent diffusionists : not only ..."
2. The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism by Allan Nevins (1922)
"... formed a plan for circulating copperhead doctrines, or, as they put it, for "the
diffusion of knowledge"; whence the Post nicknamed them "diffusionists. ..."
3. The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery by Eric Robert Papenfuse (1997)
"... Sectional Crises (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980), 8-23.
30. For modern interpretations of the diffusionists similar to my own, ..."
4. Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National by Gustaaf Houtman (1999)
"On the other hand, diffusionists, less concerned with evolution according to set
patterns of development, saw 'culture circles' (kultur kreise) which ..."
5. Folk and Hero Tales by James MacDougall, Alfred Trübner Nutt (1891)
"The " diffusionists" were at work here likewise. Hellenic myth was largely claimed
as a loan from the older civilisations of the East; Teutonic myth, ..."
6. Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition by Archibald Campbell (1891)
"The " diffusionists" were at work here likewise. Hellenic myth was largely claimed
as a loan from the older civilisations of the East ; Teutonic myth, ..."