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Propagandist

Propagandist \Prop`a*gan"dist\, n. [Cf. F. propagandiste.] A person who devotes himself to the spread of any system of principles. ``Political propagandists.''
--Walsh.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
propagandist

1797, from propaganda + -ist. Related: Propagandistic.

Wiktionary
propagandist

a. Consisting of or spreading propaganda. (from 19th c.) n. A person who disseminates propaganda. (from 18th c.)

WordNet
propagandist

adj. of or relating to or characterized by propaganda [syn: propagandistic]

propagandist

n. a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government

Usage examples of "propagandist".

Hitler, the frustrated artist but now becoming the master propagandist, came up with an inspiration which can only be described as a stroke of genius.

Now it seems there is a little man living inside me who acts as minister or propagandist or concessionaire for handjobs.

Under tremendous difficulties and obstacles the tireless propagandist has succeeded in continuing MOTHER EARTH uninterruptedly since 1906--an achievement rarely equalled in the annals of radical publications.

But the most gratifying aspect of her untiring efforts is the tremendous sale of Anarchist literature, whose propagandist effect cannot be estimated.

Like Spring, the STURM UND DRANG period of the propagandist brings forth growth, frail and delicate, to be matured or killed according to its powers of resistance against a thousand vicissitudes.

It is only the specially gifted craftsman, who, if he be a zealous propagandist, can hope to retain permanent employment.

As new world controls develop, it becomes the supreme business of the Open Conspiracy to keep them world wide and impartial, to save them by an incessant critical educational and propagandist activity from entanglement with the old traditional rivalries and feuds of states and nations.

Marxism never had any but the vaguest fancies about the relation of one nation to another, and the new Russian government, for all its cosmopolitan phrases, is more and more plainly the heir to the obsessions of Tsarist Imperialism, using the Communist party, as other countries have used Christian missionaries, to maintain a propagandist government to forward its schemes.

Britain in India is no propagandist of modern ferments: all those are left the other side of Suez.

These educational and propagandist groups drawing together into an organized resistance to militarism and to the excessive control of individuals by the makeshift governments of to-day, constitute at most only the earliest and more elementary grade of the Open Conspiracy, and we will presently go on to consider the more specialized and constructive forms its effort must evoke.

Moreover--and here again the democratic prepossessions of the nineteenth century come in--the Socialist movements sought to make every single adherent a reformer and a propagandist of economic methods.

In this scheme, this scheme of the second phase, we conceive of the Open Conspiracy as consisting of a great multitude and variety of overlapping groups, but now all organized for collective political, social, and educational as well as propagandist action.

The modern propagandist, like the modern psychologist, recognizes that men are often poor judges of their own interests, flitting from one alternative to the next without solid reason or clinging timorously to the fragments of some mossy rock of ages.

With respect to those adjustments which do require mass action the task of the propagandist is that of inventing goal symbols which serve the double function of facilitating adoption and adaptation.

Irish life, and with the years bringing him an experience of life that will dominate any propagandist purpose, Mr.