groupistn.adj.
/ˈɡruːpɪst/, U.S. /ˈɡrupᵻst/ A. n.
1. A person who arranges things into groups, esp. to artistic effect. rare.
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1840 Knickerbocker Sept. 278 The author..will not a little lessen the reputation he may have acquired at home, as a clever groupist of melo-dramatic scenes.
1901 Amer. Gardening 23 Nov. 794/2 It was his fine plants and his unparalleled groups arranged for effect which made many flower shows... He was an original groupist.
2. A member or adherent of a group; (also) a person who enjoys being part of a group.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > group within a party > member of
groupist1845
1845 Musical World 15 May 228/1 This was no display of disapprobation against the charming little groupists, who do such credit to their art.
1895 19th Cent. Apr. 568 The Groupist in him will give place to the partisan.
1924 Ounce Dec. 7/2 Men are either groupists or individualists. The groupists are found in Rotary largely; in the Elks, the Masons,..and the like.
1970 A. M. Greeley New Horizons for Priesthood iv. 57 Our current crop of ‘groupists’ drift from one kind of psychological gimmick to the other.
2008 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 25 Oct. b1 Merl was an ensemble guy, a groupist.
3. With capital initial. A member of the Oxford Group Movement. Cf. Grouper n.2 Now historical.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Buchmanism > [noun] > person
Buchmanite1933
groupist1933
Grouper1934
Moral Rearmer1956
1933 H. H. Henson Oxford Groups 7 Religion..is not quite so cheerful a matter as these gay, almost uproarious teams of missioning Groupists affirm.
1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad xxix. 252 There is a book the Groupists all seem to recommend and like called Inspired Children.
2006 K. Kee Revivalists 123 The Groupists were invariably happy, and meetings were frequently marked by laughter.
B. adj.
1. With capital initial. Of or relating to the Oxford Group Movement. Now historical.
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1933 Times 19 Sept. 8 The inevitable tendency to fanaticism which cannot but follow from the Groupist leaders' ‘conviction of infallible guidance from above’.
1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xii. 205 One of the Groupist songs.
1993 D. W. Bebbington Evangelicalism in Mod. Brit. vii. 237 The Groupist quest for divine guidance was condemned in some quarters as another symptom of the supplanting of true religion by psychological dabbling.
2. Characterized by the desire or tendency to belong to a group; (also) that tends to view people as members of a group, rather than as individuals.
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1938 H. A. Wallace Paths to Plenty iv. 102 Many papers systematically day after day appeal to the groupist instincts of their readers.
1951 Publ. Amer. Jewish Hist. Soc. 41 303 A working class with ‘groupist’ habits yet to be developed.
1990 R. Pieper in M. Poole Human Resource Managem. (1999) II. i. xviii. 108 Lifelong employment, seniority wage system, and enterprise unionism..[are linked] to cultural factors such as the groupist orientation of Japanese people.
2005 R. Brubaker in J. Adams et al. Remaking Modernity v. 472 Everyday talk..routinely [frames]..accounts of ethnic, racial, and national conflict in groupist terms as the struggles ‘of’ ethnic groups, races, and nations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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