evolutionist
noun
a person who believes in or supports a theory of evolution, especially in biology.
evolutionism
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a word derived from
evolutionist.
Example Sentences
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
The new evolutionism is very different from the old.
From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by John Charlton Hardwick
Unconsciously, but not accidentally, Dickens was here working out the whole true comparison between swift revolutionism in Paris and slow evolutionism in London.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
As a matter of taste, Lyell did not relish the application of evolutionism to his own species.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
And while Dewey accepts an evolutionary view of reality in general, the idealist has found evolutionism, at least in its biological form, too limited in scope to serve the extensive interests of philosophy.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
