单词 | indifferentist |
释义 | indifferentistn. One who professes or practises indifference, neutrality, or unconcern. Also attributive. a. In religious matters. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > creed > [noun] > indifference to > person politic1533 politique1581 adiaphorist1607 politician1643 latitudinarian1662 anythingariana1704 indifferentist1807 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. 36 Into this party all the indifferentists from other sects..naturally fall. 1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 36 232 It was after the expulsion of the Moriscoes that the Spaniards became indifferentists. 1853 Conybeare Ch. Parties in Ess. Eccl. & Soc. (1855) 155 Arnold was no indifferentist and his followers have been no Epicureans. 1869 W. M. Rossetti Mem. Shelley p. xxxiii He was..as so many other people are, a religious indifferentist who acquiesced in what he found established. 1884 Athenæum 23 Feb. 244/1 Those Japanese who pretend to any education are almost universally indifferentist agnostics. b. In politics. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > non-party positions > person independent1808 indifferentist1817 freelance1854 straddle-bug1872 maverick1880 mugwump1884 1817 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform Introd. 169 Corruption-eaters, and corruption-hunters, and blind custom led men, and indifferentists. 1879 M. Pattison Milton 121 These political phases were not the acquiescence of a placeman, or indifferentist, in mutations for which he does not care. 1890 G. Gissing Emancipated I. 75 Madeline was an indifferentist in politics and on social questions. c. generally. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [noun] > one who is indifferent pococurante1762 bore1766 Laodicean1772 nil admirari1821 come day, go day (God send Sunday)1833 Gallio1850 don't-care1854 indifferentist1866 1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man iv. 342 It is obvious that he was never a misanthrope or an indifferentist, but painfully concerned about his fellow-men. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1807 |
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