Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An advocate of or a specialist in eugenics.
Wiktionary
- n. A believer in, advocate of, or specialist regarding the principles of eugenics.
Etymologies
- From eugenic + -ist. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ingle.1 As a eugenicist, Ingle subsequently also caused a lot of stress, notably by advocating sterilization of African Americans.”
“Paul Popenoe, the most influential American eugenicist, was a leader in the progressive movement for “social hygiene.””
“Dust and Chill have largely-white casts with a few characters of Southeast Asian/American descent, for various reasons involving my theories about who the crazy-ass Christian apocalyptic eugenicist cultists would be taking into space.”
“Could Spring Heeled Jack have some connection with the Libertine movement founded by Henry de la Poer Beresford, a.k.a. the Mad Marquess, or with the Technologists, a scientific league formed by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the eugenicist Francis Galton, the medical genius Florence Nightingale and the great scientist Charles Darwin?”
The Washington Post: "The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack," steampunk by Mark Hodder
“Again, as a man of his time who was au fait with the available technology, and as the younger brother of eugenicist Julian, Huxley knew plenty about sterilization but did not anticipate The Pill.”
The Huffington Post: Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80
“The séance that Charles Darwin attended in January 1874 at the house of his brother Erasmus brought the pioneering biologist together with Francis Galton, eugenicist and one of the founders of modern psychology, and the novelist George Eliot.”
“There is a furious lobby that attaches a eugenicist tag to anybody who is pro-choice or euthanasia, but it silences its opponents in an underhand way by accusing them of hostility towards the disabled.”
The Guardian: Abortion and euthanasia: was Virginia Ironside right?
“If you want to overturn the social order with your science, it is better to be Galileo than a eugenicist?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
“Today anti-abortion advocates call her a racist and eugenicist, while their pro-choice foes nominate her for sainthood.”
“Okay, well, he's kinda on safe ground with Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who had an ugly eugenicist side to her.”
The Huffington Post: HUFFPOST HILL - Tricorne Hat-less Grassroots Movement Growing On Wall Street
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