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reˈtentionist
[f. retention + -ist]
1. One who advocates the retention of territory.
1899Contemp. Rev. June 795 At once an unyielding retentionist and an irrepressible and insatiable expansionist.
2. One who advocates the retention of capital (or occas. of corporal) punishment. Used also attrib., esp. of countries which have retained capital punishment.
1956[see abolitionist c]. 1957Landfall (N.Z.) Sept. 248 Those and only those who according to the Retentionists ought to be hanged. 1961Spectator 7 Apr. 464 Retentionists do not..in fact base their desire to retain hanging on a belief that hanging reduces the number of murders. 1972Times 28 Sept. 16/3 Retentionists [of caning] and agnostics can complain that the case for retention is made perfunctorily. |