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rightist, n. and a.|ˈraɪtɪst|
Also with capital initial.
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A. n. A member or adherent of ‘the right’ in politics.
1937Times 22 Sept. 8/2 The assassinations of the past six years [in Japan] were due to the discontent of younger officers and Rightists with depression or threats of depression. 1945C. Burney Dungeon Democracy iii. 70 He was, in Austrian politics, known to be a Rightist and a Catholic. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Sept. 546/4 The Chinese intellectual of to-day, pilloried as a ‘bourgeois rightist’ might well feel that the old cycle is at work once again. 1959Listener 10 Sept. 379/1 There have been a good many people, so-called rightists, who thought that the authorities were trying to drive the country [sc. China] rather too fast. 1960G. Mikes How to be Inimitable 53 The Labour Party has a few real leftists and the Tories a few real rightists (and vice versa). 1965New Statesman 2 July 18/2 You are told that President Clark Kerr has created the myth that there are people worse than himself—rightists baying in the legislature. 1970[see law n.1 3 a]. 1974J. Mitchell Death & Bright Water v. 45 Greek fighting Greek, Right against Left... By that time Michael was a rightist too.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of ‘the right’ in politics; tending to conservatism.
1938Time 30 May 34/3 By daybreak enraged Rightist students found their university had been taken over by the United Socialist Youth of Mexico. 1940C. S. Lewis Let. 17 Jan. (1966) 176 You will presently see both a Leftist and a Rightist pseudo-theology developing. 1957Economist 28 Sept. 1032/1 In Hongkong the continuing reiteration of official reports from the Chinese Communist press of unrest, crime, ‘rightist’ plotting, food black-marketing and counter-revolutionary activity..gives an impression of smouldering crisis or impending explosion. 1959B. & R. North tr. M. Duverger's Pol. Parties (ed. 2) ii. ii. 347 Within the Third Force the influence of the M.R.P. continually declined between 1947 and 1951, to the advantage of the Radicals and the Right wing, in accordance with the ‘rightist’ trend of alliances. 1966Listener 3 Nov. 660/3 He identified himself wholeheartedly with the ‘moderate’ and ‘rightist’ aspects of Stalinism. 1969F. Halliday in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 309 It was decided..to reactivate an old system whereby rightist students were formed into ‘University Defence Groups’. 1970R. A. H. Robinson Origins Franco's Spain ii. 67 The exception in the two Rightist minorities was Royo Villanova. 1974Times 4 Nov. 14/6 The [Durham University] debating society is regarded as a Rightist organization. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I. i. ii. 52 The nonexistent ‘rightist opposition’ would come later. 1977Time 3 Jan. 9/1 In the Middle East, Syrian President Hafez Assad gained new stature by forcibly bringing to a halt the civil war in Lebanon involving rightist Christians, left-wing Moslems, and their Palestinian allies. |