renovationistn.adj.
/ˌrɛnəˈveɪʃnɪst/, U.S. /ˌrɛnəˈveɪʃ(ə)nəst/ A. n.
An advocate of renovation or renewal; spec. a member of a political party favouring reform.
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quietist1783
restrictionist1812
progressist1844
abstentionist1857
progressive1884
productivist1892
white supremacist1896
restrictivist1899
minimalist1906
renovationist1920
Eurasian1922
communalist1927
Europasian1928
cultural Marxist1998
1920 Polit. Sci. Q. 35 111 The Socialists elected 156 deputies..the Combatants (National Renovationists), 34.
1979 C. P. Boyd Praetorian Politics in Liberal Spain iv. 69 The renovationists would hail the Juntas' revolt as the harbinger of a dramatic reorientation of Spanish political life.
1983 Financial Times 6 Apr. 4/5 The so-called ‘renovationists’, comprising, in Tokyo and Fukuoka, an alliance between the Socialist and Communist parties.
2004 Slavic Rev. 63 191 The state's campaign of terror against all religious leaders after 1929 further diminished the renovationists' strength.
B. adj.
Characterized by or favouring renovation; of or relating to (esp. political) renewal or reform.
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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
1934 A. Werth France in Ferment xiii. 264 These ‘Renovationist’ theories become anti-parliamentary, anti-democratic, and begin to verge on Fascism and Totalitarianism.
1948 J. Towster Polit. Power in U.S.S.R. 346 These renovationist practices will continue in the future.
1981 Time 24 Aug. 44/2 He was a founder of the potent renovationist Greater Baltimore Committee in 1955.
2002 I. Nish Japanese Foreign Policy in Interwar Period viii. 127 This policy had met with strident opposition from the army and from the Renovationist group of juniors in the Foreign Ministry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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