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inˈdifferentist
[f. as prec. + -ist; cf. F. indifférentiste (Littré).]
One who professes or practises indifference, neutrality, or unconcern. Also attrib. a. In religious matters.
1807Southey Espriella's Lett. II. 36 Into this party all the indifferentists from other sects..naturally fall. 1813W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXVI. 232 It was after the expulsion of the Moriscoes that the Spaniards became indifferentists. 1853Conybeare Ess., Ch. Parties (1855) 155 Arnold was no indifferentist and his followers have been no Epicureans. 1869Rossetti Mem. Shelley p. xxxiii, He was..as so many other people are, a religious indifferentist who acquiesced in what he found established. 1884Athenæum 23 Feb. 244/1 Those Japanese who pretend to any education are almost universally indifferentist agnostics.
b. In politics.
1817Bentham Parl. Ref. Catech. Introd. 169 Corruption-eaters, and corruption-hunters, and blind custom led men, and indifferentists. 1879M. Pattison Milton 121 These political phases were not the acquiescence of a placeman, or indifferentist, in mutations for which he does not care. 1890G. Gissing Emancipated I. 75 Madeline was an indifferentist in politics and on social questions.
c. generally.
1866Alger Solit. Nat. & Man iv. 342 It is obvious that he was never a misanthrope or an indifferentist, but painfully concerned about his fellow-men. |