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alarmist|əˈlɑːmɪst|
[f. alarm n. + -ist.]
a. One addicted to raising alarms; hence, who raises alarm on very slight grounds, or needlessly; a panic-monger.
1793Burke Corr. 23 Aug. (1844) IV. 135 We must continue to be vigorous alarmists. 1802Syd. Smith Wks. 1859 I. 11/1 The panic of this alarmist is so very great. 1849Cobden Sp. 8 Those wicked alarmists and panic-mongers whom I will never forgive.
b. attrib.
1800Aurora (Philadelphia) 28 Nov. (Thornton), The little alarmist Jacobin doctor found he had mistaken his man. 1802Syd. Smith Wks. 1867 I. 13 This was another gentleman of the alarmist tribe. c1842Ld. Campbell Autobiog. (1881) II. 153 Alarmist or disappointed Whigs. 1870Daily Tel. 18 July, Rumours of an alarmist character, some of them wildly improbable, were circulated. |