| 释义 |
exˈclusivist rare.
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
One who maintains the exclusive validity (of a theory).
1885Gladstone in 19th Cent. Nov. 701 The field of Greek mythology..is the favorite sporting-ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory.
Restrict rare to sense in Dict. and add: B. adj. Characterized by or typical of exclusivism; spec. of a (usu. religious) doctrine or belief or its adherents: claiming a monopoly of truth.
1960C. Geertz Relig. Java x. 126 A unique, exclusivist, universalist religion demanding total surrender to a distant God and dedicated to an eternal struggle against the unbeliever. 1964Listener 8 Oct. 557/1 Britain..had mainly herself to blame when the Americans took a largely exclusivist line. 1973B. R. Wilson Magic & Millennium xii. 385 Communal allegiance, rather than exclusivist individual choice, is the more evident phenomenon. 1986Parl. Affairs XXXIX. 384 Radical and exclusivist Communist parties can only truly represent the extreme fringes of national politics. |