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Exclusionist

Exclusionist \Ex*clu"sion*ist\, n. One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles II.

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exclusionist

a. Of or pertaining to an exclusionist, or to exclusionism n. A person who advocates the exclusion of someone or something

Usage examples of "exclusionist".

Like most landowners, Edward was staunchly exclusionist, and Sarah had been brought up to consider convicts very much beneath her.

She remembered her parents discussing the ramifications of the growth of such an exclusionist belief, and the disgust with which her centaur father viewed the segregationist ideology.

The country party affirmed, that Fitzharris had been employed by the court, in order to throw the odium of the libel on the exclusionists, and thereby give rise to a Protestant plot: the court party maintained, that the exclusionists had found out Fitzharris, a spy of the ministers, and had set him upon this undertaking, from an intention of loading the court with the imputation of such a design upon the exclusionists.

They were determined to pursue the victory, and to employ against the exclusionists those very offensive arms, however unfair, which that party had laid up in store against their antagonists.

When the principal exclusionists came to pay their respects to the new sovereign, they either were not admitted, or were received very coldly, sometimes even with frowns.

Although it was unsupported either by the exclusionists or the limitationists, and although it was contemptibly managed, there had been a moment of serious danger.

Such, at least, has been the result of my own observations, and so far from considering a fresh arrival from home, as being likely to be an accession to our little circle of liberal principles, I have generally deemed all such individuals as being more likely to join the side of the aristocrats or the exclusionists in politics.