isolationistn.
/ˌʌɪsəˈleɪʃn̩ɪst/, /ˌʌɪsəˈleɪʃənɪst/, U.S. /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃənəst/ a. One who favours or advocates isolation. In U.S. politics, one who thinks the Republic ought to pursue a policy of political isolation. Also transferred.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [noun] > other specific policies or advocacy of > supporter of
common holder1565
abolitionist1827
governmentalist1831
destructive1832
annexationist1841
destructionist1841
annexionist1844
decompositionist1849
expansionist1862
disintegrator1865
dissolutionist1882
irredentist1882
disintegrationist1884
isolationist1899
retentionist1899
free fooder1903
laissez-fairist1932
autarkist1938
elitist1938
neo-isolationist1950
non-aligner1963
1899 Press (Philadelphia) 25 Mar. 8 Their consent ought to have been obtained first, according to the creed of the isolationists.
1901 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 676 This way of accounting for progress in one or more directions may prove as inadequate as the one suggested by isolationists.
1929 Times 31 Oct. 16/1 If a grave crisis were ever to arise on the western borders of Russia, the isolationists might be swept off their feet.
1962 Malkiel in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 16 In practice one can hardly draw a sharp line of demarcation between isolationists and comparatists.
1969 Guardian 6 Feb. 10 A teacher cannot be an isolationist. He has to go out and meet the people whose opinions matter in education.
b. attributive or as adj.
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1921 Glasgow Herald 21 Apr. 8 Regarding the future policy of the United States... The isolationist attitude..is..much less obvious.
1922 Glasgow Herald 30 Dec. 7 Senator Borah has been regarded as the foremost advocate..of the isolationist policy.
1930 New Statesman 26 Apr. 69/2 When Mr. Hoover signed last year the prospect was good, but the prolonged bickerings in London have stiffened the isolationist sentiment of the interior.
1958 Punch Jan. 75/1 They go further and speculate about the future of an isolationist Britain.
1958 M. West Second Victory iii. 56 You know what these mountain people are—irredentist, isolationist, intolerant of foreigners and officials alike.
Derivatives
isolatioˈnistic adj.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > isolated > characterized by isolation
isolationistic1943
1943 E. W. Hall in Mind LII. 232 I shall speak of them as the ‘primitivistic’, the ‘isolationistic’, and the ‘semantical’ usages, respectively.
isolatioˈnistically adv.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [adverb] > in isolationist manner
isolationistically1964
1964 Economist 7 Nov. 567 To be..isolationistically independent and..internationally dominant.
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n.1899