programmist
nounEtymology From programme + -ist.
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One who supports a programme or schedule, especially politically.
- But these first theorists and programmists of communism, who conceived their programmes after the fashion of an economic enterprise, a hygienic reform, or an educational institution[…]1953, Benedetto Croce, History of Europe in the nineteenth century:
- In Quebec in 1875 he was ultramontane, programmist, out-Veuilloting Veuillot, swearing by Mgr. Bourget and Mgr. Lafleche[…]1965, Oscar Douglas Skelton, David Morice Leigh Farr, Life and letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, volume 2:
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A composer of program music.
- the leit-motif, that much-vaunted invention of programmists1916, Daniel Gregory Mason, The Art of Music: The Opera:
- Yet all the while I find myself seriously distrusting the psychological validity of the current classification of composers into absolutists and programmists or impressionists.1999, Edward Sapir, Regna Darnell, Culture, page 901: