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reformist|rɪˈfɔːmɪst|
[f. reform v.1 + -ist.]
1. a. One who advocates reform in the Church; a Reformer. (Common in 17th c.)
1589G. Harvey Pierce's Super. ii. Addit. F f, The forward Zeale of dowtie Martin Seniour,..and some other bragge Reformistes. 1608H. Clapham Errour Left Hand 36 He differs much from the most of our Reformistes heere at home. 1693J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. 310 Among the reformists you will see this more plainly attested. 1791F. Burney Diary 3 Aug., The Winton inhabitants..ran up a slight wall before it [the altar], and deceived the Reformists. 1826W. E. Andrews Crit. Rev. Fox's Bk. Mart. II. 312 Their judges were cold and calculating reformists. 1850Elder's House 97 So you see that all the Reformists have not given up the doctrine of confession.
attrib.1590Greenwood Confer. Pref. A ij, Considering the reformist Preachers are now become the BB's. trustie actors. 1882Macm. Mag. XLV. 449 Mrs. Ashley..was put into the Tower, apparently on suspicion of Reformist sympathies.
b. An advocate or supporter of political reform; (common c 1792 to 1830). Later spec. an advocate or supporter of reformism. Also as adj.
1641News from Hell, etc. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 393 The subtle practices of some parliamentary reformists. 1792Windham Speeches Parl. (1812) I. App. C. 155 Yet these [the Jacobins] are the men whom our Reformists are known to correspond with. 1817Bentham Parl. Reform Catech. (1818) 104 By a radical reformist, the Householder plan could not be refused to any Electoral District. 1830Lady Granville Lett. (1894) II. 62, I have been to see the Staffords, violent reformists. 1893Columbus (Ohio) Disp. 10 July, The general policy of the party has been enough to break the strength of the so-called Reformists. 1906M. Minturn tr. Jaurès's Stud. in Socialism p. vi, The situation reached its climax in 1899 with the entrance of the Reformist Millerand into the Waldeck–Rousseau coalition cabinet. 1913V. G. Simkhovitch Marxism versus Socialism 292 Whether they call themselves revisionists, reformists, laborites or plain socialists..the overwhelming majority of the socialists of today are tending to be reformers. 1941Koestler Scum of Earth xi. 113 The sectarian hatred between Stalinists, Trotskyists, and Reformists still existed.
attrib.a1849Poe Marginalia Wks. 1864 III. 523 The modern reformist Philosophy..and the late reformist Legislation. 1904R. C. K. Ensor Mod. Socialism 164 We are revolutionaries, because..we are not at all sure, Citizen Millerand, of attaining our desired solution by the reformist method. 192019th Cent. Aug. 206 England..allowed the right of private judgment to her middle classes in the seventeenth century and allowed every kind of Reformist literature to enter the country. 1927H. J. Laski Communism i. 39 The growth of capitalism..seemed to suggest that the day of its end was far distant. Everywhere there grew up reformist socialism. 1950E. H. Carr Bolshevik Revolution I. i. 12 The ‘Economists’..reached the same practical conclusion as the legal Marxists that it was necessary to postpone to an indefinite future the revolutionary socialist struggle of the proletariat and to concentrate meanwhile on a reformist democratic programme in alliance with the bourgeoisie. 1969Daily Tel. 1 Feb. 19/3 An article published in Soviet newspapers yesterday blamed ‘reformist’ journalists for the ‘moral tenor’ in Czechoslovak life. 1974tr. Sniečkus's Soviet Lithuania 12 A reformist opportunist trend..had developed on the basis of the petty-bourgeois nationalistic ideology. 1977Time 14 Nov. 16/3 The situation in Italy is too critical for a reformist policy like the one the Communists propose.
†2. A member of a reformed religious order.
1611Cotgr., Reformez, reformists, an Order of Franciscan Fryers. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Reformists, Monks, whose Discipline, or Rules have been reformed. |