developmentistn.adj.

1847 Brownson's Q. Rev. Oct. 524 We will add here, that, in speaking of the Developmentists, we do not include in their number all the recent converts from Anglicanism.

1865 O. A. Brownson Amer. Republic (new ed.) 50 The Epicureans—who, though unable, like their modern successors, the Positivists or Developmentists, to believe in a first cause, believed in effects without causes, or that things make or take care of themselves.

1868 Amer. Naturalist 1 605 Nature kindly, and as if by a special interposition, for which the Developmentists will find it difficult to account, provides for its maintenance.

1880 Goshen (Indiana) Times 4 Mar. 1/9 As far as I can ascertain, this assertion is admitted by developmentists.

1976 T. R. Ryan Orestes A. Brownson 371 He concluded that a whole school of developmentists was gathering about Newman.

2001 D. S. Moore Dependent Gene 256 Many developmentists now believe that such a distinction..does not help us to grapple with questions about the source of traits.

1971 Social Forces 49 652/1 Indonesia got—as the phrase goes—‘a second chance.’ And so did the developmentists.

1990 G. Di Tella & C. Rodríguez Braun Argentina 1946–83 vii. 105 Our main critics were the desarrollistas (‘developmentists’), who exerted a heavy influence on entrepreneurial associations.

2011 M. Jalali Rabbani Devel. & Antidevelopment Deb. (2016) i. 10 It is well-established that while antidevelopment discourse values freedom in terms of community's right to self-determination, developmentists value individual freedom in the liberal sense of the word.

1965 Foreign Affairs 43 307 Quite typically, sharply accelerated inflation—freely condoned by a ‘developmentist’ government—has been one of the major obstacles encountered in this attempt to develop a backward part of Brazil.

1973 D. G. Epstein Brasília vi. 177 The formal official condemnation of squatting..permits the capital to maintain its symbolic ‘developmentist’ associations.

2009 C. Adams et al. Amazon Peasant Societies in Changing Environment Introd. 1 The neo-peasants..are excluded from the developmentist agendas both of the extractive and agribusiness sectors.