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单词 gradualist
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gradualistn.adj.

Etymology: < gradual adj. + -ist suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgradualist.
A. n.
An advocate of gradual action.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [noun] > principle or method of > advocate of
gradualist1835
incrementalist1977
1835 H. G. Otis in Liberator V. 744 The Colonization Society..are gradualists.
1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. IX. 235 Mr. Lundy, like most of the anti-slavery men of that day was a gradualist, fearing..that a sudden emancipation would be dangerous to the public welfare.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to gradualism.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > theories > [adjective] > of genetics or evolution
Lamarckian1846
Darwinian1859
Darwinite1860
polygenistic1860
vestigian1860
Darwinistic1863
monogenistic1865
un-Darwinian1869
pre-Darwinian1870
Darwinic1871
hereditarian1873
monogenetic1873
pangenetic1875
phylogenic1875
evolutionistic1876
Darwinical1881
neo-Lamarckian1884
Darwinizing1886
neo-Darwinian1888
unigenist1896
Haeckelian1897
pangenic1900
Mendelian1902
monogenic1902
pre-Mendelian1902
Weismannian1903
autonomistic1904
adaptionist1915
adaptationist1931
gradualist1931
selectionist1944
Morganist1949
saltationist1954
punctuational1976
punctuationalist1978
punctuationist1979
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [adjective] > theory of
gradualistic1926
gradualist1931
incrementalist1980
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [adjective] > other political theories or doctrines
radical1783
progressive1830
progressist1843
abstentionist1857
restrictionist1858
communalist1871
mutualistic1874
militant1876
possibilist1881
productivist1892
radical feminist1905
rejectionist1909
minimalist1917
pan-Asian1917
maximalist1918
one-world1919
Eurasian1922
gradualistic1926
Europasian1928
gradualist1931
social revolutionary1931
renovationist1934
restrictivist1936
identitarian1943
cultural Marxist1949
1931 Economist 17 Oct. 698/2 It [sc. Labour] now sees no chance of securing these ends by merely gradualist methods within the general structure of the capitalist system.
1931 Time & Tide 7 Nov. 1273/1 And this most effective body of Labour is gradualist, not revolutionary.
1945 Chicago Daily News 4 Oct. 12/7 On a higher level of thought, we've labeled ourselves ‘gradualists’; and stilled any uneasy twinge of conscience by assuming that everything will wash out in the fullness of time.
1947 Koestler in Partisan Rev. XIV. ii. 142 You know that we are a reformist, gradualist movement.
1960 20th Cent. Nov. 391 The fighters of the country are not generally the gradualists.
1961 Listener 21 Dec. 1059/2 We cannot sit back and hope that..Africa will retain our gradualist and liberal traditions.

Derivatives

graduaˈlistic n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [adjective] > theory of
gradualistic1926
gradualist1931
incrementalist1980
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [adjective] > other political theories or doctrines
radical1783
progressive1830
progressist1843
abstentionist1857
restrictionist1858
communalist1871
mutualistic1874
militant1876
possibilist1881
productivist1892
radical feminist1905
rejectionist1909
minimalist1917
pan-Asian1917
maximalist1918
one-world1919
Eurasian1922
gradualistic1926
Europasian1928
gradualist1931
social revolutionary1931
renovationist1934
restrictivist1936
identitarian1943
cultural Marxist1949
1926 Glasgow Herald 25 Jan. 10 The duty of the Left Wing would be to fight with all its power against evolutionary and gradualistic theories.
1953 K. Britton J. S. Mill v. 170 Such a solution..allows us to regard inductive inference as inconclusive and gradualistic.

Draft additions 1993

2. Biology. One who views evolution as a process of continuous gradual change. Cf. punctuationalist n. at punctuational adj. Derivatives.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > theories > person holding theory > [noun] > of genetics or evolution
transmutationist1844
progressionist1845
developist1846
developmentist1847
monogenist1857
polygenist1857
Darwinian1860
Darwinite1860
developmentarian1860
permutationist1860
developmentalist1862
monogenesist1862
polygenesist1862
Darwinist1864
evolutionist1866
natural selectionist1869
homogenist1874
derivationist1875
transformista1879
hereditarian1881
hereditist1885
derivatist1887
preformationist1888
fortuitist1890
Lamarckite1890
neo-Lamarckian1890
neo-Darwinist1891
vestigian1891
neo-Darwinian1892
selectionist1892
preformist1895
recapitulationist1897
transmissionist1899
Mendelian1903
mutationist1903
Weismannian1903
adaptationist1904
Mendelist1906
Lysenkoist1949
Morganist1950
Lamarckian1953
gradualist1970
macromutationist1975
punctuationalist1978
saltationist1978
punctuationist1980
1970 G. G. Simpson in Hecht & Steere Ess. Evol. & Genetics ii. 79 Darwin was a gradualist.
1983 E. C. Minkoff Evolutionary Biol. xxi. 352/2 The controversy between gradualists and punctuationalists has done much to spark a renewed interest in evolutionary biology, and particularly in evolutionary theory.
1983 R. Dawkins Evolution from Men to Molecules xx. 418 In the modern context..I do not think Darwin should be labelled a strong gradualist. In the modern context, I suspect that he would be rather open-minded.
1986 Observer 5 Oct. 25/3 ‘Punctuationists’—who argue that evolution characteristically occurs in short ‘bursts’ of tens of thousands of years, followed and preceded by long periods of ‘stasis’—are really only sophisticated gradualists.

Draft additions 1993

Of or pertaining to gradualism or gradualists.
ΚΠ
1987 New Scientist 24 Dec. 28/2 A study has been published that backs up the gradualist view of evolution.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.adj.1835
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