racialist en · NOUN
Etymology
1910 (noun), 1917 (adjective). racial + -ist, from older racialism (1882).
Meanings
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A believer or advocate of racialism, the ideology of racial nationalism.
It was a fundamentally racialist attitude which regarded the native people of empire countries as primitive simpletons only fit to be led by a breed of men of higher intellect and moral fibre.
2023, David Brandon, The General Strike 1926: A New History, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 48:
- (UK, dated) A racist.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| racialists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |