Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who studies a facet of America, such as its history or geology.
- noun A specialist in the study of American aboriginal cultures or languages.
- noun One that is sympathetic to the United States and its policies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One devoted to the study of subjects specially relating to America.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Somebody who favors the values of the
USA . - noun An expert in the study of
America .
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Examples
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The Americanist is pulling stuff out of his butthole. theAmericanist says:
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But socc&f#2 raised a question: if an Americanist is someone who studies and has ideas about American culture, or someone who tries to decide what has made that culture the way it is, can you be “an Americanist” and be a poetry critic these days?
am I an americanist? : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The Americanist is an ancient liberal concern troll who I remember from Dave Neiwert’s blog.
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I see that th’Americanist is still trotting out his wildly revisionist claims about the Contract.
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He told me that what was happening to Islam in the US was like “the Americanist heresy”.
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Many of us have argued with the Americanist all over the internets, and on a wide variety of topics.
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Senatorial debate under those conditions are akin to debating with Americanist here.
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February 12th, 2010 at 1: 12 pm the Americanist says:
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So Leo XIII condemned the Americanist heresy in 1899.
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The Americanist heresy is characterized as an insistence upon individual initiative which the Vatican judged to be incompatible with what European conservatives considered to be a fundamental principle of Catholicism: obedience to authority.
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