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violationist

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Etymology

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From violation +‎ -ist.

Noun

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violationist (plural violationists)

  1. (archaic) One who performs violationism.
    • 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation:
      The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.
    • 1876, James John Garth Wilkinson, On Human Science: Good and Evil, and on Divine Revelation, page 577:
      The destruction of the mind as a power of reason is a characteristic effect of the violationists.