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minimizer|ˈmɪnɪmaɪzə(r)| [f. minimize v. + -er1.] One who minimizes. Chiefly in Theol.
1867Union Rev. V. 361 Anglicans in 1866, see numbers of those who went over in the interval stigmatised as ‘minimisers’. 1874J. H. Newman Cert. Diffic. Anglic. (1876) 321 A few years ago it was the fashion among us to call writers, who conformed to this rule of the Church, by the name of ‘Minimizers’. 1880Littledale Plain Reas. lxxxix. 162 The two parties..are now called Maximizers and Minimizers; the Maximizers pushing the dogma of Infallibility to its furthest possible extent..; the Minimizers endeavouring to reduce within the narrowest limits so dangerous a proposition. |