maximizern.
/ˈmaksᵻmʌɪzə(r)/, U.S. /ˈmæksəˌmaɪzər/ 1. Theology. A person who maintains the most rigorous or far-reaching interpretation possible of a doctrine, esp. the Roman Catholic dogma of papal infallibility. Now rare.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > [noun] > adherent of rigorous
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1868 E. S. Ffoulkes Church's Creed (ed. 2) 37 I am not aware that any demur to this conclusion..can be raised even by maximisers.
1880 R. F. Littledale Plain Reasons lxxxix. 162 The two parties..are now called Maximizers and Minimizers; the Maximizers pushing the dogma of Infallibility to its furthest possible extent..; the Minimizers endeavouring to reduce within the narrowest limits so dangerous a proposition.
1892 Catholic World Apr. 88 As there are superstitious people, who accept as of faith what is not, there may be those who may not be ready to take everything without first ascertaining by approved ways what is to be held. The former may be called maximizers.
2. A person who or thing which maximizes something.
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1943 Rev. Econ. Statistics 25 67 (note) A rational maximizer would act so as to reduce interest only gradually over time.
1978 National Jrnl. (U.S.) 14 Jan. 50 It should not be the CAB that operates as a great profit maximizer at 1825 Connecticut Avenue.
1990 IMA Jrnl. Numerical Anal. 10 578 The λi values featured in D are tending towards local maximizers of the function Σsj=1γjexp (−λxj).
1999 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) June 223/2 Another product that receives rave reviews from everyone who tries it is Lancaster Tan Maximiser Gel For Body.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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