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individualist|ɪndɪˈvɪdjuːəlɪst|
[f. individual + ist; cf. F. individualiste.]
1. One who pursues an independent or egoistic course in thought or action.
1840Gladstone Ch. Princ. 131 The sentiment of the catholic is better, and its besetting danger less, than those of the individualist in religion. 1856Kingsley Misc., Hours w. Mystics I. 351 The Pharisee becomes a selfish individualist just because he has forgotten this. 1883Beard Reformation vi. 189 The Anabaptists were the individualists of the Reformation.
2. An adherent of the social theory of Individualism. (See also quot. 1891.)
1876Fawcett Pol. Econ. (ed. 5) ii. x. 275 It is maintained by the individualists that if a great number of manufactories and other trading establishments were brought into connection with the Wholesale Society, the business would become far too extensive and complicated to be properly managed. 1888Pall Mall G. 10 Sept. 3/2 To hold the scales between individualists and Socialists. 1891Beatrice Potter Coop. Movem. Gt. Brit. 75 The term Individualist has been used within the Cooperative movement for the last twenty years to denote that school of Cooperators who insist that each separate manufacturing establishment shall be governed (if possible owned) by those who work therein; the profits being divided among the working proprietors. Opposed to Federalist. 1896Times 30 Jan. 8 If the individualists are to hold their own against the encroachments of the State.
3. attrib. or as adj. = individualistic.
1871Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. i. 341 Owing to the supremacy in European thought of the individualist ideas which Christianity carried in with it. 1885Contemp. Rev. June 903 He condemns Liberalism because it is individualist. 1892Times 14 Oct. 7/2 The traditions of French workmen are strongly individualist, and they have not been in a hurry to enter into combinations. Ibid. 26 Nov. 9/2 The cautious individualist development of colonization in Australia or North America. |