单词 | concessionist |
释义 | concessionistn. A person who advocates concession (concession n. 1). ΚΠ 1813 Protestant Advocate May 400 We hope that no concessionists will be found in Spain, capable of being worked upon by the adherents of the holy office to relax the decree. 1828 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 38 548 How, then, may this be effected?—By conciliation, exclaims the whole host of confederated concessionists. 1936 A. H. Kamiat Critique Poor Reason i. ii. 17 It is but another example of fallaciousness to accept a concession as a sign of the subordinate position of the concessionist. 2012 Palestine Chron. (Nexis) 31 Dec. Through all his political life, Abbas has been a concessionist, a push-over and an empty suit with no back-bone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1813 |
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