regulationistn.adj.

1830 H. Mackenzie in Rep. Select Comm. Affairs E. India Company (1832) App. iii. 154 in Parl. Papers 1831–2 (H.C. 734) VIII. 1 The most skilful regulationist can scarcely tell the injured in what shape they are to seek redress.

1893 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 24 Aug. 6/3 The extreme regulationists of the Hogg party.

1914 A. Flexner Prostitution in Europe ix. 314 No community has as yet envisaged and attacked the entire problem involved in commercialized prostitution,—no community, I say, whether regulationist or abolitionist.

1952 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 281 102/1 The regulationists had been very much aware of this fact for some time.

2000 Australian (Nexis) 1 Aug. 55 The failure of the US bill cannot be regarded as a clear win for advocates of regulation, even though regulationists are ecstatic about the situation.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 July 13/2 Several cases where the Regulationist party in America had been circumvented.

1914 A. Flexner Prostitution in Europe ix. 332 The division chief admitted that, although having been a regulationist during the regulation period, experience with the alternative system had made him a strong abolitionist.

1938 Times 22 Oct. 14/1 They would always have to contend with the difficulties of the regulationist countries as against the abolitionist countries.

1997 Computing 3 Apr. 26/1 It would be easy to adopt the regulationist argument.