eugenicistn.adj.
/juːˈdʒɛnᵻsɪst/, U.S. /juˈdʒɛnəsəst/ A. n.
An advocate or supporter of eugenics (eugenics n.).
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eugenicist1909
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1909 Manch. Guardian 3 Nov. 10/1 The eugenicists proposed to improve the racial quality of the nation by the application to human beings of facts and laws of a biological character.
1987 J. Franklin Molecules of Mind (1988) xi. 138 The ‘eugenicists’..had taken the gospel of Darwin quite literally.
2003 L. Moss What Genes can't Do i. 25 The banner of orthodox Darwinism was held by the biometrician and eugenicist Frances Galton (also Darwin's cousin) and his student Karl Pearson.
B. adj.
Of or relating to eugenicists or eugenics (eugenics n.).
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dysgenic1915
cacogenic1917
eugenicist1925
1925 Davidsonian (Davidson Coll., N. Carolina) 14 May 6/2 The placing of ‘health’ third, and the high rating of ‘willingness to rear a family’ [when asked to rank desirable qualities in a prospective wife] show that the Davidson students are following the general trend toward eugenicist ideas.
1989 Atlantic Sept. 10/2 We hope that Professor Herrnstein's eugenicist jeremiad did not make readers too anxious about America's future.
2005 Isis 95 414 This quotation encapsulates the author's essential worldview, a eugenicist approach to history in the tradition of elite individualism represented by Galton's Hereditary Genius.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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