noun
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a person who supports a particular ideology, esp a political theorist
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a person who studies an ideology or ideologies
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a theorist or visionary
Etymology
Origin of ideologist
First recorded in 1790–1800; ideolog(y) + -ist
Example Sentences
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Ideologist love dry, but their is a growing demand for sweet or feinherb .
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2016
Next day seven pages of Pravda were devoted to a scalding speech of excommunication prepared privately seven weeks ago by Soviet Ideologist Mikhail Suslov for this very contingency.
From Time Magazine Archive
In late 1985 Shevardnadze reportedly arranged to show the film to several Politburo colleagues, including Party Ideologist Yegor Ligachev.
From Time Magazine Archive
A fourth man also regularly joins the decision-making executive committee of the eleven-man Politburo: Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 65, whose position seems to have stayed almost the same through several changes in leadership.
From Time Magazine Archive
Others, like Defense Minister Ustinov and Foreign Minister Gromyko, 70, and Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 77, would appear to be disqualified because of their narrow specializations.
From Time Magazine Archive
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