mountainistn.
/ˈmaʊntᵻnɪst/, U.S. /ˈmaʊntənəst/, /ˈmaʊntn̩əst/ rare.† 1. A person who is native to or lives in a mountainous region; (occasionally) such a person regarded as ignorant, uncivilized, or uneducated; = mountaineer n. 1a. Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on high land
Highlandman1450
overlander1548
mountainer1577
mountaineer1599
highlander1614
mountainist1625
uplander1699
hillman1854
hill-woman1895
hillsider1898
tiersman1941
Montagnard1966
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. x. 174 Bodin seemes to make a Harmony and Concent betwixt the Northerne man and the Mountainist.
1626 W. Vaughan Golden Fleece i. xi. 86 Those rude mountainists [sc. Waldensians and Albigensians]..presumed..to reade Gods Seruice in their barbarous Tongue.
2. French History. With capital initial. A member of an extreme democratic party of the first French Revolution; = Montagnard n. 1.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > French politics > [noun] > extreme revolutionary
sansculotte1790
Montagnard1794
mountainist1847
1847 tr. ‘Timon’ Orators of France 40 The Mountainists..suffered from the anarchy of action and opinion.
1946 Amer. Hist. Rev. 51 663 Mountainists had earlier been accused of fomenting the bread problem in Bordeaux.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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