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Definition of Meliorist
1. Noun. A disputant who advocates reform.
Generic synonyms: Controversialist, Disputant, Eristic
Specialized synonyms: Abolitionist, Emancipationist, Birth-control Campaigner, Birth-control Reformer, Chartist, Civil Rights Activist, Civil Rights Leader, Civil Rights Worker, Demonstrator, Protester, Dry, Prohibitionist, Conservationist, Environmentalist, Feminist, Libber, Women's Liberationist, Women's Rightist, Flower Child, Hippie, Hippy, Hipster, Freedom Fighter, Insurgent, Insurrectionist, Rebel, Activist, Militant, Non-resistant, Passive Resister, Preservationist, Utopian
Specialized synonyms: Anthony Comstock, Comstock, Dix, Dorothea Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Hus, Huss, Jan Hus, John Huss, Owen, Robert Owen, Girolamo Savonarola, Savonarola, Francis Everett Townsend, Townsend, John Wilkes, Wilkes
Derivative terms: Crusade, Meliorism, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reform, Reformism, Reformist
Definition of Meliorist
1. Noun. A proponent of meliorism ¹
2. Adjective. Of or relating to meliorism. ¹
3. Adjective. Supporting the principles of meliorism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meliorist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meliorist
Literary usage of Meliorist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Morality of Marriage: And Other Essays on the Status and Destiny of Woman by Mona Caird (1897)
"The meliorist believes, on the contrary, that there is a cure for these things,
slow but certain, and that it lies, like a concealed treasure, ..."
2. Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness by Jane Hume Clapperton (1885)
"This appears (so far as I can learn) to have been the first use of the term "
meliorist." In George Eliot's "Life," vol. iii. p. 301, I find that, ..."
3. Westways: A Village Chronicle by Silas Weir Mitchell (1913)
"A pessimist I may be, but it is the habitually hopeful meliorist who is just now
... John's interest was caught for the moment by the word, "meliorist. ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1897)
"It appears, then, that the meliorist is sacrificing himself merely to a ...
For my part, were Ia meliorist in theory, I am afraid that I should prove a very ..."
5. Pen-portraits of Literary Women by Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder (1887)
"In her general attitude toward life George Eliot was neither optimist nor pessimist.
She held to the mid- A meliorist. /- ... . . die term, which she ..."
6. ... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons by Adolphus Frederick Schauffler (1910)
"He was a meliorist. The evils he saw stirred his soul with a burning enthusiasm
to remove them. A young girl " put down Sherlock Holmes with a long sigh of ..."
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