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localist|ˈləʊkəlɪst|
[f. local a. + -ist.]
One who inclines to treat or regard things as local, to subject them to local conditions, etc.; a student of what is local; one who assigns a local origin to (diseases).
1683O. U. Parish Churches no Conventicles 16 The Legislators had more regard to the Duty, than to the Place of it, and had more respect to the Discretion of the Priest, than this Localist hath; he labouring more for the Circumstance of Place, to gratify his own Humour, then the Intention of the Thing to edify the Congregation. 1833Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 163 In our opinion, both essentialists and localists have taken a much too limited view of the etiology of fever. 1860Berkeley Brit. Fungol. 55 Where species are very difficult to distinguish, it is in general because forms are separated which are too closely allied, an evil which is familiar enough to every practical botanist, though apt to be overlooked or completely ignored by the inexperienced or mere localists. 1901Q. Rev. Oct. 542 The ‘Localists’ attributed the epidemics to local conditions, atmospheric changes, uncleanliness, and so forth.
Add:B. adj. Confined to or concentrated upon matters of local interest; parochial, provincial.
1934in Webster. 1963Ann. Reg. 1962 200 ‘Localist’ tendencies within the regional economic councils. 1988New Statesman 17 June 46/1 There's a real commitment to a cultural policy which is simultaneously ‘localist’ and internationalist. |