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exclusionist|ɛkˈskluːʒənɪst| [f. as prec. + -ist.] One who favours exclusion; one who would exclude another from some privilege.
1822Hazlitt Table-t., On Reading New Bks. (1852) 22 And those who claim it for themselves or others are exclusionists in literature. 1825New Monthly Mag. XVI. 372, I am not..an exclusionist in matters of society. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Compensation Wks. (Bohn) I. 47 The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself in striving to shut out others. attrib.1860Sat. Rev. IX. 7/1 How..could any Minister attempt to remove the relics of the exclusionist system? b. Eng. Hist. A supporter of the Exclusion Bill: see exclusion 1 b.
1756Hume Hist. Eng. (1854) VI. lxviii. 329 The reasoning of the exclusionists appeared the more convincing. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 256 Opponents of the court were called Birminghams, petitioners and exclusionists. |