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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His co-defendant Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge’s No. 2 leader and chief ideologist, was convicted twice and received the same life sentence.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022
Koeman is troubleshooting, is not an ideologist and does not have any inclination to start that debate.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2021
As the Kremlin’s chief ideologist, he coined the term “sovereign democracy” that underpins Putinism – an ostensibly open political system controlled from the top.
From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2019
Steve Bannon, the strategist and ideologist who was instrumental in Trump’s campaign victory, in 2016, hinted broadly at what might be next.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 24, 2019
I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire.
From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
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