eugenicist
noun
a specialist in measures intended to produce a perceived improvement in the human species or a human population.
eugenist
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a variation of
eugenicist.
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a word derived from
eugenics.
eugenicsnounthe study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by people presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits negative eugenics or encouraging reproduction by people presumed to have inheritable desirable traits positive eugenics.
Example Sentences
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The eugenist is rather a shaggy man to look at.
From Gossamer 1915 by George A. Birmingham
War, then, offers one of the greatest problems which the eugenist must face, for a few months of war may undo all that eugenic reforms can gain in a generation.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
There is another and somewhat similar fallacy which deserves a passing word, although it is of more concern to the livestock breeder than to the eugenist.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
It tends, in other words, to strike out, temporarily, or in a fatal event, permanently, from the class of fathers, precisely that percentage of the population which the eugenist wishes to see in that class.
From Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
Once I thought "eugenist" = "zany," Now I know better and raise high in air Bumpers Falernian, "Looking towards you."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 by Various
