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Definition of Meliorists
1. meliorist [n] - See also: meliorist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meliorists
Literary usage of Meliorists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report (1901)
"We can be meliorists, who believe that the world is steadily getting better; and
how can any sane man who reads history believe otherwise? ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"... when they liked to call themselves 'meliorists,' sang 'Say not the struggle
naught availeth,' and expected the redemption of mankind by Free Trade, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"... his modern successors, who do not share his ethical optimism, are at best
meliorists who require activities as the result of speculation ; so that with ..."
4. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"For there are some persons, more particularly sensitive women, not by any means
pessimists but rather meliorists, whose feelings and consciences are so ..."
5. American World Policies by Walter Edward Weyl (1917)
"To some of these meliorists, Europe seems almost as distant as China, but towards
the peoples of both places they preserve a vague and benevolent missionary ..."
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