islandist

See also: Islandist

English

Etymology

From island +‎ -ist.

Adjective

islandist (comparative more islandist, superlative most islandist)

1. Pertaining to or characteristic of islandism.
   • 1986, R. J. Vincent, Foreign Policy and Human Rights: Issues and Responses, page 121:

     Islandist assumptions remained dominant as late as 1911, when the third Home Rule Bill was drawn up.

   • 2013, Pam Belluck, Island Practice:

     Plus, Johnson said, in a blatant appeal to islandist sympathies: “It's not like I'm a weekender.”

   • 2018, Eric D. Duke, Building a Nation: Caribbean Federation in the Black Diaspora:

     Whereas organizations such as the WIFA and CU confirmed regional West Indian identifications and represented the connections between transnational West Indian organizations and black diaspora politics, the JPL, as a transnational Jamaican organization, demonstrates that the regionalism that took root among many West Indian expatriates in these years did not negate all expatriates' islandist perspectives and allegiances.

   • 2018, Matthew G. Allen, Resource Extraction and Contentious States, page 92:

     These islandist narratives have found political expression in resistance movements such as Maasina Rule that emerged on Malaita in the aftermath of the Second World War and was violently repressed by colonial authorities (Akin 2013), and the Moro Movement on the Weather Coast, a "proto-nationalist, anti-colonial movement" with a back-to-kastom agenda, that continues to be influential in the southern and central regions of Guadalcanal (Kabutaulaka 2992b, p. 59).

Noun

islandist (plural islandists)

1. An islander, especially one with islandist attitudes.
   • 1795 April 16, Gazette of the U.S:

     We find that the French islandists have in some instances grossly ill used Americans.

   • 1981, Earl Gooding, The West Indies at the Crossroads, page 91:

     […] themselves islandists.

   • 2014, Brij V. Lal, Allison Ley, The Coombs: A House of Memories, page 271:

     His death hastened the division of a relatively homogenous department into its subsequent component bits—the Islandists, New Guineaists, and Southeast Asianists.