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expansivist en · ADJ

Etymology

From expansive + -ist.

Meanings

  1. Tending toward maximizing the applicability or scope (of something)
    • This expansivist view is presidency-weighted, regarding the maximization of presidential power as virtually the sine qua non of American politics. 1989, William F. Grover, The President as Prisoner, page 18:
    • Charny's expansivist understanding of genocide even goes as far as claiming that massive deaths resulting from the meltdown of a nuclear reactor would count as genocide. 2012, Ken Booth, The Kosovo Tragedy: The Human Rights Dimensions, page 32:
    • First, this expansivist view would make public health limitless in scope. 2008, Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis, Anita Silvers, The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics, page 328:
    • The prevailing view, which corresponds to that of the expansivist school, considers "protection of one's own nationals" as part of the customary right of self-defense under article 51 and sees "self" in self-defense as including the nationals of a state. 1989, Richard J. Erickson, Legitimate Use of Military Force Against State-sponsored International Terrorism, page 182:
    • As for Mark and Matthew, they are speaking to exclusivist adherents to the Yahweh faith of Israel and arguing for an inclusivist, expansivist approach to that faith. It is in their interest to expand the narrower “for you” to a more inclusivist, expansivist “for many” and “for the forgiveness of sins.” 2019, Don Erickson, A Life Lived and Laid Down for Friends, page 50:

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expansivist en · NOUN

Etymology

From expansive + -ist.

Meanings

  1. One with an expansivist attitude toward or definition of something.
    • Ishay's work in general is laudable in that she is the most inclusive and comprehensive of the expansivists. 2020, Georg Brandes, William Banks, Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples:
    • Tracing their twentieth century origins back to Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, expansivists were energized by FDR's leadership. 1989, William F. Grover, The President as Prisoner, page 8:
    • In the extreme, expansivists assert that we should stop talking of “discovering truth” altogether. 2015, Timothy P. Jackson, Political Agape: Christian Love and Liberal Democracy, page 126:
    • Widely labelled a genocide by politicians, journalists, and some genocide studies scholars, the judgment of these expansivists is called into question because Kosovar Albanians were in the main expelled from Serbia rather than liquidated. 2012, Ken Booth, The Kosovo Tragedy: The Human Rights Dimensions, page 41:

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