alternativistn.

1916 E. W. Mason Let. 27 Nov. in Made Free in Prison (1918) 136 Those alone who were absolutists from the first have perhaps the questionable right to call the alternativists traitors.

1939 Peace News 29 Sept. 7/2 For the alternativist his way may seem as hard for him as Calvary was to Christ.

1972 N. Barker Stanley Morison 73 C.O.s [during World War I], however different their grounds of objection, could be divided into two main groups, alternativists and absolutists: those who were prepared to accept some sort of employment, provided that it made no direct contribution to the war, and those who refused alternative service as a condition of exemption.

2000 M. Ceadel Semi-detached Idealists vii. 232 The dispute between the absolutists and alternativists within the NCF had made him so jaded that he handed the acting chairmanship to Salter.

1990 N.Y. Times 22 Aug. c4/4 One said, ‘You patronize the grocery and not the food co-op,’ the ultimate insult to a striving alternativist.

1992 Independent 15 May 8 But things began to go sour in the Eighties when the old hippies and alternativists found themselves ill at ease in a world which has spawned ‘crusties’ and various post-punk types.

2001 Times 4 July ii. 9/1 You can almost hear the Birkenstocks being hurled across consulting rooms from Glastonbury to Hampstead, the spluttering of alternativists choking on their macrobiotic fruit juice.