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pejorist|ˈpiːdʒərɪst, ˈpɛdʒərɪst|
[f. as pejorism + -ist, after pessimist.]
One who believes that the world is becoming worse.
1919W. de Morgan Old Madhouse i. 3 Are we the better or the worse off by the change? The Optimist says better, the Pessimist says worse. I think the present writer must be sitting on a fence—a pejorist, suppose we say, since jargon is in vogue nowadays. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 14 July 508/4 Between optimists and pessimists there are those who style themselves..bonists, malists and pejorists. 1933A. E. Housman Let. 5 Feb. (1971) 329, I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist). 1958Listener 31 July 171/3 Why he [sc. A. E. Housman] was impelled to rape the major pejorists of five literatures for phrase and form to enable him to make poetry of his own predicament. |