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renovationist, a. and n.|rɛnəˈveɪʃənɪst|
[f. renovation n. + -ist.]
A. adj. Characterized by or favouring renovation; of or pertaining to (esp. political) renewal or reform.
1934A. Werth France in Ferment xiii. 264 These ‘Renovationist’ theories become anti-parliamentary, anti-democratic, and begin to verge on Fascism and Totalitarianism. 1948J. Towster Political Power in U.S.S.R. 346 These renovationist practices will continue in the future. 1981Time 24 Aug. 44/2 He was a founder of the potent renovationist Greater Baltimore Committee in 1955.
B. n. An advocate of renovation or renewal; spec. a member of a political party favouring reform.
1983Financial Times 6 Apr. 4/5 The so-called ‘renovationists’, comprising, in Tokyo and Fukuoka, an alliance between the Socialist and Communist parties. 1986New Yorker 21 July 82/3 Leaders of the allegedly most moderate, sensible, democratic faction of the Peronist party, the so-called Renovationists, had issued a statement sneering at the Radicals' ‘mediocrity’. 1989Chicago Tribune 16 May (North ed.) 4/2 Menem beat the Renovationists in internal party primaries..to become the presidential candidate. |