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oppoˈsitionist, n. (and a.)
[f. opposition + -ist.]
a. One who professes or practises opposition; esp. a member of the parliamentary opposition.
1773J. Boucher Amer. Revol. (1797) 297 Like modern oppositionists..they seem to have thwarted David..[as] the best way to promote some indirect purpose of their own. 1786Europ. Mag. IX. 296 Ministers and Oppositionists vie with each other who shall be most frugal and saving of the public money. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1837) II. 191 The oppositionists to ‘things as they are’, are divided into many and different classes. 1881Mrs. C. Praed Policy & P. I. 294 The various ministers, the Oppositionists, and officials walked in. 1965A. Nove in B. Pearce tr. Preobrazhensky's New Economics p. xiv, Like other former oppositionists he came to the Congress to apologize for past misdeeds and to denounce Trotsky. 1971I. Deutscher Marxism in our Time (1972) vi. 113 In June 1957, exactly twenty-five years will have elapsed since I was expelled from the Party as an oppositionist. 1973Sunday Advocate-News (Barbados) 16 Dec. 4/3 The Consul-General attributed the rumours to be the work of ‘oppositionists’ who he said are trying to embarrass the Government.
b. attrib. or as adj.
1812Shelley Lett., to E. Hitchener (1888) II. 90 The public papers are either oppositionist or ministerial. 1881Mrs. C. Praed Policy & P. III. 220 The grave nature of the Oppositionist attack. 1962S. E. Finer Man on Horseback xii. 231 The members of the nationalist movement have been reared in an oppositionist mentality. 1963Cambr. Rev. 4 May 405/2 An individual perception of reality—as distinguished from a conformist perception, whether it be ‘official’ or ‘oppositionist’—is of value and interest. |