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‖ arriviste|arivist|
[Fr., f. arriver to arrive + -iste -ist.]
One who is bent on ‘arriving’, i.e. on making a good position for himself in the world; a pushing or ambitious person, a self-seeker. So as adj. Hence arrivisme, the attitude or behaviour of an arriviste. Also occas. in anglicized form aˈrrivist, aˈrrivism.
1901Gabrielle Gissing Let. 12 July in R. A. Gettmann Geo. Gissing & H. G. Wells (1961) 189 What we call an ‘arriviste’, such as Lashmar. 1908W. Raleigh Let. 10 June (1926) II. 331 Haldane is arriviste and worldly—not in the least perceptive. 1914National Rev. Dec. 479 The latter are still arrivistes who have so far failed to arrive. 1925Contemp. Rev. Aug. 174 He [sc. Canning] was an arriviste—an arriviste naked and unashamed. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 84 Both Stravinsky and Chirico stand a little outside the more unscrupulous and arriviste work of their disciples. 1936‘C. Brahms’ Footnotes to Ballet ii. 51 But ‘arrivist’ though the theme might be, it still found time for..the dancing cadenza. 1936M. Franklin All that Swagger xxi. 199 Arrivism was his creed. 1944A. L. Rowse Eng. Spirit xii. 92 Its arrivisme can be exaggerated: people did not rise, under Elizabeth, from the bottom of the social scale. |