innovatorn.
/ˈɪnəʊveɪtə/ a. One who innovates; an introducer of novelties or new methods; †a revolutionist.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > revolutionary
innovator1598
revolver1698
revolutionist1710
sansculotte1790
revolutionary1795
revolutionizer1798
revolutioner1803
descamisado1821
radical1822
sansculottist1833
revolutionaire1835
red republican1848
redshirt1889
Bolshevik1926
Young Turk1948
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > innovation or avant-gardism > innovator or avant-gardist
novelist1593
innovator1598
novateur1600
novator1600
noveller1604
novist1660
setter-up1713
innovationist1800
vanguardist1934
avant-gardist1940
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Innouatore, an innouator [1611 innouater], alterer, disturber or changer.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. i. 177 My Selfe Attach thee as a Traitorous Innouator: A Foe to'th'publike Weale.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 139 He that will not apply New Remedies, must expect New Euils: For Time is the greatest Innouatour.
1681 E. Sclater Serm. Putney 18 Moses was a Tyrant, and Aaron an Innovator.
1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) 337 Of modern infidels and innovatours, he said ‘Sir, these are all vain men’.
1882 G. Matheson in Expositor Aug. 137 He was no innovator on the national faith.
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the world > time > change > [noun] > one who or that which causes change
changera1398
mutator1632
innovator1638
alterator1662
turnabouta1670
alterant1750
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 202 At the Court..there is no longer any..safety for innovatours of our Language.
1660 R. South Eccles. Policy 12 Innovators of Divine Worship.
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