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escapist|ɪˈskeɪpɪst|
[f. escape n.1 + -ist.]
1. One who escapes, or who tries to escape, from captivity, prison, etc. Cf. escapee.
1934in Webster. 1938Punch 22 June 700/2 Escapists... The efforts of these nefarious ruffians to dodge the police. 1943Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War May–Aug. 43 Pantellaria was the destination of these rubber dinghy escapists, but they were rounded up by the Royal Navy. 1958Times 22 Mar. 7/4 He rushed out of court before he could be stopped, whereupon the judge..fined the escapist {pstlg}20.
2. fig. Esp., one who seeks distraction from reality or from routine activities. Cf. escapism.
1933C. S. Lewis Pilgrim's Regress vi. iii. 125 ‘And you have never heard Mr. Halfways either.’ ‘Never. And I never will. Do you take me for an escapist?’ 1937Essays & Studies XXII. 148 The satirist is a kind of escapist. 1942E. Waugh Put out more Flags 252 Turning their backs on the world of effort and action. Fortunate islanders [sc. the Irish],..happy, drab escapists. 1946[see escapism]. 1958Spectator 6 June 738/1 Both Hawthorne and Henry James were censured as escapists.
Hence attrib. or as adj., that provides escape from reality or routine; pertaining to escapism.
1930J. C. Ransom God without Thunder 178 It is much more likely that they betoken a defeated and escapist people. 1933Archit. Rev. LXXIII. 206/2 Those great pioneers of the past..took up the escapist attitude of William Morris. 1940W. Empson Gathering Storm 62 A critic like Dr. Leavis can speak with the same tone of moral outrage about an Escapist (sentimental) novel as a customs official would about Lady Chatterley's Lover, say. 1959Manch. Guardian 15 Aug. 3/6 The escapist peace of a nudist camp. |