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propagandist, n. (a.)|prɒpəˈgændɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist: so F. propagandiste.]
A. n.
1. A member or agent of a propaganda; one who devotes himself to the propagation of some creed or doctrine; a proselytizer.
1797Burke Two Lett. on Conduct of our Domestick Parties 109 How can I help it if this Royal propagandist will preach the doctrine of the rights of men? 1829Southey Sir T. More (1831) I. 352 The propagandist of Atheism and the Jesuit both find facile converts. 1861Crawfurd in Trans. Ethnol. Soc. I. 88 The early Portuguese conquerors in India..very active and zealous propagandists. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 114 Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than Good. 1885Sat. Rev. 30 May 713/2 To counteract the teachings of Radical propagandists. 1929J. Fineberg tr. Lenin's What is to be Done? in Coll. Wks. IV. ii. 147 A propagandist..must present ‘many ideas’, so many indeed that they will be understood as a whole only by a (comparatively) few persons. 1942Sun (Baltimore) 12 Jan. 8/1 The rumors have been fostered by Hitler's propagandists. 1976Daily Tel. 20 July 3/1 Dr Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist, could not have invented a more vilifying tag than that of the Black Panther.
2. spec. A missionary or convert of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Propaganda.
1833A. Crichton Hist. Arabia I. i. 29 note, He exposed the errors and superstitions of the Church of Rome, so as to alarm the Propagandists, who employed a Franciscan friar to refute it. 1890Tablet 6 Sept. 365 Two Catholic factions, called respectively Padroadists and Propagandists. 1893Dublin Rev. Jan. 31 The Goanese, to whatever part of India they wandered, kept themselves distinct from the Catholics, whom they termed Propagandists.
B. adj. Given or inclined to propagandism; devoted to the propagation of doctrines or principles.
1824D. Webster Speech on Greek Revolution 5 It may be easy to call this resolution Quixotic, the emanation of a crusading or propagandist spirit. 1833Blackw. Mag. June 933 Portugal..has been abandoned..to the revolutionary spoliation and propagandist arts of France. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Race Wks. (Bohn) II. 20 They are still aggressive and propagandist. 1885C. Lowe Bismarck xii. II. 320 The authorities had been ordered to deal with the Catholic Press, and with propagandist societies under the influence of the Jesuits.
Hence propaganˈdistic a., of or pertaining to propagandists or propagandism; propaganˈdistically adv., in a propagandist manner.
1880Daily Tel. 17 Feb., Nicholas was opposed to France, because she was propagandistically dangerous to his form of government, pure absolutism. 1890in Voice (N.Y.) 30 Jan., The objects of the society are mainly propagandistic. 1941G. G. Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism viii. 306 Men of tireless literary and propagandistic activity. 1957I. Asimov Earth is Room Enough (1960) 19 Such propagandistic lies were not uncommon. 1976New Yorker 26 Jan. 66/3 Kim Il Sung figures he has made enough headway, even propagandistically, at the United Nations for the moment. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 June 4/2 There was no such propagandistic cause as anti-communism to impel those peach-cheeked youngsters to wage a war against an enemy caught up in the thrall of a fanatical, even suicidal nationalism. |