progressist

[prog-res-ist, -ruh-sist, proh-gres-ist, -gruh-sist]

noun

1. a person favoring progress, as in politics; progressive.

Other Word Forms

• progressism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of progressist¹

First recorded in 1840–50; progress + -ist

Example Sentences

Members of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s progressist Cabinet are clashing over whether to discourage people in Spain from consuming so much ham, beef and other forms of animal protein.

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The Tunisia of today “joins advanced countries” as far as democracy is concerned, said Najib Chebbi, founder of the Progressist Democratic Party, the main political opposition under Ben Ali.

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The Progressist party, then including the present National Liberals, had, under the lead of Schultze-Delitzsch, been promoting trades unions and co-operation in an experimental way, and the working classes themselves were beginning to think of taking more concerted action for their own improvement.

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The Leipzig working men had discussed the question of their relation to politics at a previous congress a few months before, and had been divided between abstaining from politics altogether, and supporting the Progressist party.

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I alluded a while ago to the letters written from the villa of Tusculum; they express the sentiments of the Roman conservative Progressist party.

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