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meliorist|ˈmiːlɪərɪst|
[f. L. melior better + -ist.]
One who believes in meliorism.
1858J. Brown Horæ Subsec., Locke & Sydenham Pref. 19, I am not however a pessimist, I am, I trust, a rational optimist, or at least a meliorist. 1877Geo. Eliot in Cross Life (1885) III. 301, I don't know that I ever heard anybody use the word ‘meliorist’ except myself. 1890G. B. Shaw in Fab. Ess. Socialism 28 The Socialist came forward as a meliorist on these lines.
attrib.1884H. Spencer in Contemp. Rev. July 39 The meliorist view—..that life..is on the way to become such that it will yield more pleasure than pain. |