Declinist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɪˈklaɪnɪst/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Declinist is a noun meaning A subscriber to declinism.
Meaning
A subscriber to declinism.
More Meanings
- Believing in or tending towards declinism.
Example Sentences
As our first declinist candidate for president, Donald J Trump did at least express something new and true about the nature of our country.
Against a background of almost paralytic gloom and declinist talk, Vienna tried to take on Napoleon, breifly bhecked him at Aspern-Essling and then went down to absolute defeat at Wagram […].
Rather than accept this, declinists often explained things that did not happen, with explanations that did not work, based on bad history. Thus declinists insist that British R&D has always been low, the City always over-mighty, the country always in the grip of empire, the state under the imaginative control of classicists and historians rather than technocrats, that industry never stood a chance.
Word Forms
- declinists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include declensionist, descendentalist, collapsitarian, resignationist, deteriorationist, cessationist.
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