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modernizer|ˈmɒdənaɪzə(r)|
[f. modernize v. + -er1.]
One who modernizes.
1739G. Whitefield in Life, etc. (1756) 225 The Generality of our Modernizers of Christianity. 1805Southey in Ann. Rev. III. 563 Not only the style, but the morals of the original,..are vitiated by the French modernizers. 1886H. M. Posnett Compar. Lit. 47 We expect the old harmony between earlier sounds and ideas to be kept up by the moderniser.
b. One who desires to modernize education by the elimination of ‘classics’.
1889A. Sidgwick in Jrnl. Educ. Feb. 116 Before it was the modernisers, asking, in view of needful modern subjects, Is there time for classics? |