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progressionist|prəʊˈgrɛʃənɪst|
[See -ist.]
1. An advocate of or believer in progression or progress; a progressist, a progressive.
1849Fraser's Mag. XL. 391 Opposed to the influence of her unconscious Toryism, a Progressionist of susceptible temperament might be in danger of abandoning his opinions. 1854Blackw. Mag. LXXV. 349 None but liberals or progressionists need apply. 1883Standard 28 Mar. 3/4 Old⁓fashioned opera is not the lifeless thing which progressionists would seek to make out. 1886S. L. Lee Life Ld. Herbert Introd. 40 A sure sign that Herbert was a sincere progressionist.
2. One who holds that life on the earth has been marked by gradual progression from lower to higher forms.
1859H. Spencer in Universal Review July 81 Sir R. Murchison, who is a Progressionist, calls the lowest fossiliferous strata, ‘Protozoic’. 1867― Princ. Biol. iii. §140 Were the geological record complete, or did it, as both Uniformitarians and Progressionists have habitually assumed, give us traces of the earliest organic forms.
3. (See quots.) rare—0.
1864Webster, Progressionist, one who holds to the progression of society toward perfection. 1882Ogilvie (Annandale), Progressionist. 1. One who maintains the doctrine that society is in a state of progress towards perfection, and that it will ultimately attain to it.
4. attrib. or as adj.
1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. ii. 29 The unprejudiced modern student of the progressionist school. 1883Athenæum 8 Sept. 305/2 The progressionist tendency of the age.
So proˈgressionism, the theory or principles of a progressionist, or sympathy with progress.
1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. 143 That wise spirit of moderate and retrospective progressionism. |