preparationistn.adj.

1915 A. L. Lowell in World's Work (N.Y.) 30 719/1 The preparationists..fix their attention primarily on the means of securing the safety of our own land from injury by war.

1936 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 4 Apr. 4/7 The nonsense uttered by extreme preparationists is equaled only by the nonsense of extreme pacifists who ignore what has happened to China.

1998 E. J. Renahan Lion's Pride vii. 88 Roosevelt's friend and fellow preparationist, Charles J. Bonaparte, probably confirmed this premise for Roosevelt.

1966 N. Pettit Heart Prepared i. 18 The preparationists maintained that contrition and humiliation were not in themselves saving graces but preliminary steps, and that while God takes away all resistance, this cannot be done without man's consent.

1975 K. Keller Example of Edward Taylor i. 9 There is in Taylor the more awful example of the cor irrequietum, the restless discontent of Augustine and Calvin and the Puritan preparationists.

1996 M. P. Winship Seers of God (1999) iv. 91 Mather remained all his life a preparationist, convinced that the ordinary process of conversion included preliminary terrors and convictions of human inadequacy and of the necessity of Christ.

1915 Public 15 Oct. 993/2 Preparedness must be for aggressive war as well as for defense. So says the staunch preparationist organ, the Chicago Tribune.

1966 N. Pettit Heart Prepared v. 130 The process of conversion for New England would be patterned after Cotton's interpretation of Reformed dogmatics or more closely aligned with the prevailing preparationist point of view.

1986 New Eng. Q. 59 384 Unlike Solomon Stoddard, who was later to criticize the preparationist idea as a prop of pride, Firmin saw in it the curtailment of hope.