integrationist en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English integration Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English integrationist From integration + -ist.
Meanings
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An advocate, supporter and/or practitioner of (social) integration, usually aiming for greater equality.
Instead the legal confrontation took place in the 1950s, when the Southern allegation “that integrationists were Communists” carried far greater resonance than it would have a decade earlier, and when “the power of the left to implement desegregation” — as Ms. Gilmore imagines it — no longer existed.
2008 January 4, David J. Garrow, “Early Warriors in the Fight for Racial Equality”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| integrationists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |