transformist

[ trans-fawr-mist ]

/ trænsˈfɔr mɪst /

an adherent of transformism.

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1790–1800; transform + -ist, modeled on French transformiste

trans·form·is·tic, adjective

A few weeks before his death he repented of his transformist policy, and again included Crispi and Zanardelli in his cabinet.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2|Various
If I were a "transformist" how I should delight in this question!
Social Life in the Insect World|J. H. Fabre
So that, all things considered, the transformist hypothesis looks more and more like a close approximation to the truth.
Creative Evolution|Henri Bergson
He was a transformist from the very first, and performed all his various researches in the spirit of an evolutionist.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899|Various

She pointed out the results which logically follow from the transformist theory.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899|Various