fundamentalistn.adj.

1912 Mag. Wall St. Mar. 199/1 I was once a fundamentalist myself. In the spring of 1904, the principal factors showed a heavy balance on the bull side. I therefore bought U. S. Steel common below 9.

1973 Economist 15 Dec. 106/2 The fundamentalists look at a company's product, balance sheet, record and management before deciding whether the stock market has put the right value on the shares.

2006 J. C. Brooks Mastering Techn. Anal. ii. 16 Being somewhat late to react in a market is not a fatal flaw, as the fundamentalist tends to be geared toward very long term investments.

1913 Monitor & New Era 31 May 6/2 The fundamentalist will want to know how do we know that we know it?

1918 Reformed Church Rev. Oct. 522 American jurists as a rule are naturalists or fundamentalists and apply primary principles to the interpretation of international law; while English jurists are positivists and only accept what has been agreed upon or settled by the common law.

1957 Denton (Texas) Record-Chron. 15 Sept. iii. 13/3 ‘Our downfield blocking looks bad, and it could hurt us seriously if it doesn't improve,’ said Collins, a dyed-in-the-wool fundamentalist when it comes to football.

1960 New Left Rev. May 6/2 Communist and Labour fundamentalists of the ‘statist’ variety.

2007 Esquire Sept. 89/2 As Peggy descends into madness, she pushes away her WASP-ish brother and sister-in-law and a fellow animal fundamentalist.

1921 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune & Times 21 June 1/1 The fundamentalist or conservative movement was voluntarily originated at the Buffalo convention last year by 150 pastors and laymen who favored a complete reversion to or maintenance of the basic Baptist belief in the bible.

1925 K. Lake Relig. Yesterday & To-morrow 60 The most energetic..group, but the least well educated, is the Fundamentalist.

1949 M. L. King Papers (1992) 240 It was the Protestant Reformation which enunciated the doctrines which are now called ‘fundamentalist’.

1957 Middle East Jrnl. 11 391 Less well known is their [sc. Europeans'] part in the development of non-Christian fundamentalist movements through their translations..of the ancient sources.

1985 Daily Tel. 29 Mar. 22/4 Fundamentalist Jews are limbering up to oppose the plan on the grounds that it will depict scenes from the New Testament as well as the Old.

1995 Guardian 6 Feb. ii. 4/3 In America, the hard core pro-life followers are based in fundamentalist churches.

2015 Church Times 9 Jan. 3/4 Among Muslims, rejection of out-groups is generally higher, but it is a minority position among those without fundamentalist beliefs.

1928 Southwestern Polit. & Social Sci. Q. 9 241 Home rule is a sort of fundamentalist theory of government which is tenaciously held in the South and Southwest.

1946 Antioch Rev. 6 307 Professor Orton can be characterized as a hard-shell, or fundamentalist, liberal, somewhat to the right of the British Liberal Party.

1964 New Statesman 31 July 137/3 De Gaulle preaches the doctrine of uninhibited nationalism, Mao Tse-tung a fundamentalist Marxism tinged by racial hatred.

1986 Amer. Scholar 65 571/1 McClay asserts that ‘Heinz Hartmann and Co.’..imported and imposed upon the American psychoanalytic establishment a fundamentalist brand of Freudianism.

2008 New Yorker 8 Dec. 61/3 Fundamentalist capitalism, of the type promoted by the late economist Milton Friedman..is so unpopular..that its establishment requires, at best, trickery and, at worst, terror and torture.