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单词 presentist
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presentistadj.n.

Brit. /ˈprɛzntɪst/, U.S. /ˈprɛzn(t)əst/
Forms: also (in sense B.) with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: present adj., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < present adj. + -ist suffix. With use as adjective compare slightly earlier preterist adj. With use as noun compare earlier presentism n., preterist n., and futurist n.
A. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of presentists or presentism.In quot. 1878: designating a scheme based on the belief that the prophecies of Scripture, esp. of the book of Revelation, are at present in course of fulfilment.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective] > modern
modern1585
new-schoolish1844
New World1847
latter day1850
contemporary1859
unantiquated1859
todayish1864
contemporaneous1871
modernistic1878
presentist1878
up to date1888
down to date1893
up-with-the-times1893
de nos jours1909
up to the minute1909
chromium-plate1924
chromium-plated1924
contempo1944
now1955
New Wave1960
nouveau1974
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [adjective] > apocalypse > already
preterist1846
presentist1878
1878 H. G. Guinness Approaching End of Age (1880) ii. i. 94 Three distinct classes..denominated Preterist, Futurist, and Presentist schemes of interpretation.
1938 V. A. Belaunde Bolivar & Polit. Thought of Spanish Amer. Revol. p. xv He desires to liberate the political structure from the domination of the will of individuals and the empirical and immediate (presentist) exigencies of universal suffrage.
1950 Amer. Hist. Rev. 55 505 From this source Croce derived his presentist conception of time.
1975 Nature 24 Apr. 729/3 Such history as is dealt with reads soundly, but it is often drawn from secondary sources and professional historians of science would judge it presentist and Whiggish.
1993 C. Tilley Interpretative Archaeol. v. 186 Interpretation at, and through, ‘distance’ is not however a presentist imposition upon the text.
B. n.
An advocate of the present; a person who has a bias towards the present or is influenced chiefly by present-day attitudes.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity > one who is modern in methods or opinions
modernist1864
new eraist1872
modern1888
presentist1923
modernus1953
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse > believing present now > believer
presentist1923
1923 A. Huxley On Margin 10 They are all Futurists... Or rather, they are not Futurists: Marinetti's label was badly chosen. They are Presentists.
1927 R. Fry Let. 4 Aug. (1972) II. 603 I've never been a Passéist—I was a Futurist but I have gradually trained myself to be a Presentist.
1989 Sunday Tel. 29 Oct. 47/1Presentists’ are reviled for seeing the past through modern eyes; while the ‘pastists’ are accused of not understanding that the interest of the past is its meaning for today.
2003 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Aug. 12 21st-century presentists link hands with their Whig predecessors in reaching for a History that supports their policy preferences.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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