| 释义 |
proˈgressivism
[f. progressive + -ism.]
The principles of a progressive or progressist; advocacy of, or devotion to, progress or reform.
1892St. James's Gaz. 7 Mar., If London had been converted to Progressivism—that is Radicalism. 1896Westm. Gaz. 14 May 3/1 The state of this country [Russia], in which primitivism—if I may be permitted the expression—and progressivism are sometimes so oddly mixed. 1961Curtis & Boultwood Short Hist. Educ. Ideas (ed. 3) xx. 581, 1938..marked the final withdrawal of the pragmatist group from identification with progressivism. 1978Church Times 17 Mar. 9/1 One might cite William Golding as representative of those intellectuals who were brought up to Wellsian rationalism and progressivism..and then rejected it. 1979Daily Tel. 12 Oct. 5/1 Mr. Amin [President and Prime Minister of Afghanistan] did not refer to Communism or Socialism in his speech but stressed that the constitution would be based on ‘progressivism’, the word commonly used by Communists in parts of Asia where Communism is still frowned upon.
So proˈgressivist = progressive n.; also attrib. or as adj.
1884A. V. H. Carpenter in Chicago Advance 1 Jan. (1885) 867 There are..no more impracticable progressivists than those who clamor for a repeal of all laws. 190419th Cent. Aug. 292 An ardent young Progressivist. 1945K. R. Popper Open Society I. iv. 39 Had he [sc. Plato] been a progressivist, he might have hit at the idea of a classless, equalitarian society. 1959Times 23 Sept. 13/6 The younger composers..are indistinguishable in outlook from the vanguard of our English progressivists. 1969Daily Tel. 13 Nov. 14/3 A favourite progressivist argument..is that people who are most vehemently against something are often the very same people who are unconsciously most inclined to it themselves. 1977D. Watkin Morality & Archit. iii. ii. 94 According to the progressivist view, anything which reminds one ‘of the past’ is regarded as a vice. |