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preservationist|prɛzəˈveɪʃənɪst|
[f. preservation + -ist.]
An advocate of preservation, esp. one who advocates the preservation of historic buildings or antiquities. Also attrib. or as adj. Hence preserˈvationism, the practice or advocacy of preservation.
1927Blackw. Mag. Sept. 314/1 The excuses made for her [sc. the peregrine falcon] by modern ‘Preservationists’ are altogether paltry. 1937Archit. Rev. LXXXII. 50/1 We would not..do more than note in passing Raphael's plea for the preservation of antiquities and his appointment as controller of monuments by Pope Leo X. Distance has dimmed too much for us the true nature of Raphael and his kind as constructive artists, as opposed to the ‘preservationists’ of today, for us to risk such an appointment. 1957Observer 10 Nov. 3/4 Town planning councils, preservationist maniacs and ‘good taste’ committees all came in for a drubbing. 1959Archit. Rev. CXXVI. 205/2 Old houses in New Zealand have not yet acquired a period value. Preservationism is completely absent; too much so, one is inclined to say. 1960Guardian 25 Feb. 1/2 A preservationist undergraduate..threatened to send ‘Save Cowley Vicarage’ telegrams. 1961Architect & Building News 21 June 815/1, I hope the preservationists will not let up for a minute in their struggle to protect our dwindling countryside. 1973Times 16 Oct. 2/5 In 1964 the London County Council wanted to demolish it, but a public inquiry ended in a victory for preservationists led by Sir John Betjeman. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 623 She regarded it as pure sentimentalism and called it ‘preservationism’, a word of abuse. 1978Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 16 Apr. d–4/1 Announcement of the discovery was delayed until recently..because the mining concern..feared there would be a preservationist outcry. |