单词 | exclusionist |
释义 | exclusionistn. a. One who favours exclusion; one who would exclude another from some privilege. ΚΠ 1822 W. Hazlitt On reading New Bks. in Table-talk (1852) 22 And those who claim it for themselves or others are exclusionists in literature. 1826 New Monthly Mag. 16 372 I am not..an exclusionist in matters of society. 1841 R. W. Emerson Compensation in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 110 The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself, in striving to shut out others. b. English History. A supporter of the Exclusion Bill: see exclusion n. 1c. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > supporter of Exclusion Bill excluder1670 exclusioner1685 exclusionist1756 1756 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1854) VI. lxviii. 329 The reasoning of the exclusionists appeared the more convincing. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 256 Opponents of the court were called Birminghams, petitioners and exclusionists. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1756 |
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