exceptionalist

American  

[ik-sep-shuhn-uhl-ist] / ɪkˈsɛp ʃən əl ɪst /

noun

plural

exceptionalists

1. a person who believes that a nation, region, or political system is exceptional; a believer in exceptionalism.

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adjective

1. relating to or characterized by exceptionalism.

Other Word Forms

• exceptionalist adjective

Example Sentences

They also clarify the damage wrought by our collective amnesia and our refusal to learn from history – an outgrowth of our propensity to view our place in history from an exceptionalist perspective.

From Salon

In his laudable effort to bring some complexity to an often-banalized story — in doing the historian’s work, in other words — Leffler tends to neglect the bombastic and exceptionalist nationalism that shaped Bush’s national security rhetoric, particularly after the 9/11 attacks.

From Washington Post

We live in a country that has long embraced an American exceptionalist notion that the country is moving beyond or has transcended race, or at the very least that Americans by and large do not indulge in racial hatreds.

From Salon

I don’t want to overstate what you’re saying, but it does feel a little bit as though part of the trick here is if it comes in a different bottle, wearing a different cloak, in a different iteration, then it’s easy just to say, “Well, we don’t torture people anymore,” without seeing all of what comes after it, the iterations that follow, but also to tell an American exceptionalist story about how we’re learning and getting better.

From Slate

Along the way Drake came to embody a streak of Englishness — bumptious, tenacious, patriotic, crafty, vainglorious and defiantly exceptionalist — that is back with a vengeance.

From New York Times