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interˈnationalist [f. as prec. + -ist.] a. An advocate of or believer in internationalism; spec. a member of or sympathizer with the International Working Men's Association. b. One versed in international law.
1864Webster, Internationalist, one who advocates the principles of international law. 1876Fawcett Pol. Econ. (ed. 5) ii. xi. 285 The idea most prevalent amongst Internationalists, and other modern Socialists, is the immediate purchase of the land by the state. a1882N. Brit. Rev. (O.), In the days of Elizabeth, the publicists of England, both as constitutionalists and internationalists, in so far as international law was then understood, had nothing to fear from a comparison with their continental rivals. 1916A. Huxley Let. 19 Mar. (1969) 94, I get extraordinarily irritated with some of these Internationalists, who conscientiously object. 1955H. Hodgkinson Doubletalk 60 In practice it is enough to discover what the USSR considers her own interests to be to show to the ‘proletarian internationalist’ his own. 1965M. Bradbury Stepping Westward i. 47 They were avaricious internationalists, evidently, their legs turned nutmeg by a sun that had come to find them daily in different places. 1973Listener 17 May 636/1 A little-known Maoist organisation known as the Internationalists, founded in Vancouver in March 1963. c. attrib. or as adj.
1941J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man xiv. 288 The nationalistic element in socialized religion will be subordinated or adjusted to the internationalist. 1955Koestler Trail of Dinosaur 190 Socialism has lost its claim to represent the internationalist trend of humanity. Hence internationaˈlistic a.
1930A. Flexner Universities i. 13 This present-day world, compounded of tradition, good and bad, racial mixtures, nationalistic and internationalistic strivings. 1973M. Truman Harry S. Truman x. 204 Arthur Vandenberg, leader of the internationalistic Republicans, fulminated against what was happening in Poland. |