antipreformationist

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ preformationist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /antipɹiːfɔːˈmeɪʃn̩ɪst/

Adjective

antipreformationist (comparative more antipreformationist, superlative most antipreformationist)

1. Opposed to the theory of preformationism.
   • 2001, David M Friedman, A Mind of its Own, Robert Hale, published 2009, page 60:

     Leading the antipreformationist camp was William Harvey, the first scientist to correctly describe the circulation of blood.

   • 2005, Ron Amundson, The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought, page 149:

     Despite his antipreformationist skepticism, he gradually became convinced both of the chromosome theory and of Mendelism by the discovery of Drosophila mutations that segregated with the sex chromosome.