| 释义 |
paternalist, a.|pəˈtɜːnəlɪst|
[see -ist.]
= paternalistic a.
1928Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inquiry) iii. xviii. 237 ‘Welfare work’ has an unpleasantly paternalist and patronising sound.
Add:B. n. One who embraces the principles and practices of paternalism.
1934in Webster. 1962R. Williams Britain in Sixties: Communications iv. 92 The control claimed as a matter of power by authoritarians, and as a matter of principle by paternalists, is often achieved as a matter of practice in the operation of the commercial system. 1975Economist 25 Oct. (Survey Suppl.) 7/3 A ‘progressive intellectual’ meant a paternalist, who did not like change very much but was eager to pass on in welfare benefits a larger part of the easy growth in national income which his own anti-growth attitudes now made it slightly more difficult to attain. 1986E. Longford Pebbled Shore ii. 15 By the 1880s ‘his workers’—for he was a paternalist—had grown into a..significant work-force. |