progressist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
progressist (plural progressists)
- Synonym of progressionist (“one who makes or supports progress”)
- 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:
- Gérard Moore, in his double character of semi-foreigner and thoroughgoing progressist, the man most abominated.
- Synonym of progressionist (“one who holds that all life forms gradually evolve to a higher form”)
References[edit]
- “progressist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.