释义 |
ultraist|ˈʌltrəɪst| [f. as prec. + -ist. So Sw. ultraist.] One who holds extreme opinions; an extremist.
1842G. S. Faber Prim. Doctr. Election (ed. 2) i. i. 5 note, Those high-vaulting Ultraists, who professedly treat with contempt the harmonious voice of Aboriginal Antiquity. 1875O. W. Holmes Old Vol. Life, Crime and Automatism (1891) 357 Obviously these reformers are not fanatics; they are not ultraists or Utopians. Hence ultraˈistic a., tending to extremes in opinion or practice.
1840G. S. Faber Christ's Disc. Capernaum Ded. p. xx, Our ultraistic friend,..in his own insulated strength confident against the world in arms. 1877Sparrow Serm. ix. 115 This unmeasured, exaggerated and ultraistic mode of drawing inferences.
Add:2. With cap. initial. [ad. Sp. ultraísta.] An adherent of Ultraism (sense *2). Also attrib. or as adj.
1931S. Putnam tr. J. Cassou in S. Putnam et al. European Caravan I. 299 Gerardo Diego, formerly one of the founders of the Ultraist movement, and one of the finest intelligences that there is. 1934G. D. Craig Modernist Trend in Spanish-Amer. Poetry i. 23 The Ultraist disdains the simple image and seeks for the double or multiple image. 1970New Yorker 19 Sept. 56/2 In Seville, I fell in with the literary group formed around Grecia. This group, who called themselves Ultraists, had set out to renew literature. 1980Christian Science Monitor (Eastern ed.) 6 May b3/1 By 1919 they [sc. the Borges family] had settled in Spain, and his unformed imagination fell for the ‘Ultraists’, a literary youth gang fond of labored metaphors and cafe-hopping. |