antimachinist

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ machine +‎ -ist.

Noun

antimachinist (plural antimachinists)

1. Someone who is hostile to machinery; a Luddite
   • 1969, Stanley L. Jaki, Brain, Mind, and Computers‎^[1], page 259:

     The uprising of the antimachinists got under way and went on to a victorious end. It was, however, a victory marred by agonizing controversies as to where to draw the line between machines slated for destruction and the ones to be kept.

2. (politics) An opponent of a political machine
   • 1988 March 11, Gary Rivlin, “Seven Days as Mayor”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     Perhaps this distraction was perversely comforting for a dyed-in-the-wool antimachinist like Orr, a sense of continuity at a time of great emotional confusion.