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
On every side evolutionism, in its crude form, was already in the air.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
The predominant interest of evolutionism is in the question of human destiny, or at least of the destiny of Life.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
If Spencer had begun by putting to himself the question of the hereditability of acquired characters, his evolutionism would no doubt have taken an altogether different form.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
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
