modernistn.adj.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 106 Likewise..of sundry other neotericall mathematicians and modernists.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 182 The witt of this, & that odd Modernist, is their owne.

1703 R. Boyle King Saul Pref. sig. A3 David..has more grateful Acknowledgments payd here to His high Deserts than some Modernists who have..made him cease to be either King or Psalmist.

1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ix. 168 Even his [sc. Mr. Wotton's] Brother Modernists themselves, like Ungrates, do whisper so loud, that it reaches up to the very Garrat I am writing in.

1864 Daily Tel. 8 June 4/4 Those Guelphs and Ghibellines of art, the modernists and the mediævalists.

1873 J. Ruskin Val D'Arno 7 Behold, the Christians despising the Dunce Greeks, as the Infidel modernists despise the Dunce Christians.

1925 Amer. Mercury Oct. 193/1 The New Dawn about to be ushered in by the birth-controllers, anti-child-laborites, pacifists, modernists, [etc.].

1964 T. B. Bottomore Elites & Soc. v. 98 The nationalist political leaders..confront serious difficulties, which arise from the conflict between traditionalists and modernists within their own ranks.

1997 A. Barnett This Time p. xi That's one of the reasons..why I like Blair, because he's a modernist and I hate..these old prejudices, these old people who don't want to see anything new.

1856 J. Grote in Cambr. Ess. 99 Let us survey the state of the attack upon it [sc. classical study] first by Patriots, and then by Modernists.

1905 Jrnl. Educ. Apr. 266/1 The presumption that the pure classicist would be degraded or contaminated by admixture with the modernist unregenerated by Greek.

1879 S. Colvin Art & Criticism in Appletons' Jrnl. Oct. 324/2 The fanatical realists and modernists..will have it that all art is obsolete and false which is not modern and realistic.

1922 B. Hecht 1001 Afternoons in Chicago 97 Mr. Prokofiev is a modernist; so nobody pays much attention. Musicians are all mad.

1927 F. J. Mather Hist. Mod. Painting 373 In comparison the Modernists have attained nothing of the coherence or authority of a school.

1937 S. W. Cheney World Hist. Art (1938) xxviii. 862 This wing of modernists—with Cézanne as their prime exhibit—brought in..form as the indispensable creative force in painting.

1961 Listener 23 Nov. 863/1 Rosenberg, unlike the modernists, does not go in for phanopoeia or free association.

1991 Ornament Autumn 52/1 Her experiments with jewelry were parallel to the work of other early modernists such as Margaret DePatta, Paul Lobel and Sam Kramer.

1995 Independent 6 Nov. (Suppl.) 8/4 For the renovation of the new 22,000-square-foot store..Klein sought out New York's most famous minimal Modernists such as Richard Meier.

1907 tr. Pius X Encyclical Let. Doctrines Modernists 6 It is one of the cleverest devices of the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement.

1920 W. Sanday Divine Overruling 67 I do not disclaim the name of Modernist. The name describes justly what I aim at being. I aim at thinking the thoughts and speaking the language of my own day, and yet at the same time keeping all that is essential in the religion of the past.

1923 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 62 Roman Modernists took Newman's doctrine of development.

1972 L. F. Barmann Baron F. von Hügel & Modernist Crisis in Eng. p. ix Modernists have been concerned to defend themselves and their aims, and anti-modernists have been equally concerned to justify the conduct of the Roman authorities and the positions of Roman theologians.

1997 Latin Mass Summer 16/1 Modernists reject a central tenet of Catholicism.

1932 Disques June 158 To me the most daring experiments of the modernists rarely approach the originality, mated to pure musicianship, of a dozen arresting moments in Ellington's works.

1955 J. Prentice in A. J. McCarthy Jazzbook 1955 105 As I understand that the traditional field will be covered in another article I will confine myself to the modernists.

1962 Sunday Times 10 June (Colour Suppl.) 3 The strange division between the extrovert ‘traditionalists’..and the very different avant garde ‘modernists’ (whose idol is the revolutionary Charlie Parker).

1848 C. Kingsley Yeast in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 289/1 That vile modernist, naturalism, is creeping back even into our painted glass.

1911 Catholic Encycl. X. 418/2 Newspapers and reviews, openly modernist in their opinions, bear witness to the gravity of the danger which the Sovereign Pontiff sought to avert.

1927 L. Riding & R. Graves (title) A survey of Modernist poetry.

1927 F. J. Mather Hist. Mod. Painting 372 Modernist pictures are becoming discreet, almost cautiously monotonous in colour.

1931 J. S. Huxley What dare I Think? vii. 228 Accounts of God which are as modernist as could be desired.

1935 H. G. Wells Things to Come xii. 99 One sits on a chair of modernist form. (All furniture is metallic.)

1958 V. Bellerby in P. Gammond Duke Ellington ii. 143 Such extensions and developments only lead to a destruction of its [sc. Jazz's] real and lasting value, as has unquestionably happened with some of the more involved modernist experiments.

1963 Listener 21 Mar. 518/1 The writers were, in a sense, traitors in the modernist camp.

1988 A. N. Wilson Tolstoy xiii. 337 Either you take the Modernist line that it is impossible to know what Jesus said..or you are a Fundamentalist.

2000 M. Gladwell Tipping Point 207 Gordon is a striking woman, with a languid wit, who lives in a..modernist masterpiece in the Hollywood Hills.