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programmist en · NOUN

Etymology

From programme + -ist.

Meanings

1. One who supports a programme or schedule, especially politically.
   • 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:
   • 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:
2. A composer of program music.
   • 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:
   • the leit-motif, that much-vaunted invention of programmists 1916, Daniel Gregory Mason, The Art of Music: The Opera:

Forms

Synonyms

programmatist · programmatist