单词 | gradualist |
释义 | gradualistn.adj. 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). < n.adj.1835 |
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