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Meliorist

noun
1.
A disputant who advocates reform.  Synonyms: crusader, reformer, reformist, social reformer.






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"Meliorist" Quotes from Famous Books



... quite justly recognised in his earlier works. His analysis has gone deeper into the heart of things, and he has put off the satirist and the iconoclast. But there is in his thought an incompressible energy of revolt. A pessimist in contemplation, he remains a meliorist in action. He is not, like Mr. Hardy, content to let the flag droop half-mast high; his protagonist still runs it up to the mast-head, and looks forward steadily to the "heavy day of work" before him. But although the note of the conclusion ...
— Little Eyolf • Henrik Ibsen



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