progressist
nounEtymology From progress + -ist.
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Synonym of progressionist (“one who makes or supports progress”).
- Gérard Moore, in his double character of semi-foreigner and thorough-going progressist, the man most abominated.1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The Waggons”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 40:
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Synonym of progressionist (“one who holds that all life forms gradually evolve to a higher form”).