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eliminationist en · ADJ

Etymology

From elimination + -ist.

Meanings

  1. Advocating eliminationism; advocating the elimination of a group of people.
    • They become more eliminationist in potential when their eliminationist fundamentals constitute a substantial part of a society's or group's culture or subculture. And the manner in which a group's conversations deprecate other people ... 2009, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, →ISBN, page 342:
    • While often justified as retribution or preemption, massacres are typically “more eliminationist than simply punitive in intent.” As in other genocidal campaigns, and illustrated in the chapters that follow, American settler colonials carried out ... 2013, W. Hixson, American Settler Colonialism: A History, →ISBN, page 19:

Forms

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more eliminationist Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most eliminationist Degree=Sup lexicographic

Synonyms

annihilationist

eliminationist en · NOUN

Etymology

From elimination + -ist.

Meanings

  1. A proponent of eliminationism.

Forms

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eliminationists Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

annihilationist