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  • noun Plural form of individualist.

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  • On the other hand those whom we might call individualists felt that conformity to the general human nature was abnegation, self-destruction, psychic suicide.

    NATURE GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • America is a nation of individualists, which is what makes America what it is, and our schools and school systems are responsible.

    Opportunities in Engineering

  • Of course, there is a sense in which all men are ethical individualists, that is, inasmuch as they hold the voice of conscience to be the immediate rule of conduct.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • I want rather to suggest an underlying fallacy of all so-called individualists in dealing with schemes of so-called

    Post-Prandial Philosophy Grant Allen 1873

  • So-called individualists seem to think that under a more organised social state they would not be so able to buy pictures as at present, not so free to run across to California or Kamschatka.

    Post-Prandial Philosophy Grant Allen 1873

  • ISI has been but a shell of itself since they dropped the word "individualists" from the name.

    A Price on Integrity, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Seems a whole bunch of unpatriotic "individualists" are driving less because they selfishly decided to allow trivialities like eating and paying mortgages to trump their civic duty.

    We're from DONCO and We're Here to Help Don Lewis 2008

  • On the other hand, I don't remember ever explicitly saying it as such, so I can also be very modest about it as I ponder the implications, the most obvious being how it is that so many self-identified "individualists" act as if the most important thing in their world is winning an argument.

    See How It All Fits Together James Killus 2008

  • In the wake of 911, even strong 'individualists' found it easier to just go along with the 'mass think' that blamed Islam, Europe [France, in particular] for crimes that we now know were perpetrated by the Bush regime itself.

    Jung: Resisting the 'New World Order ' 2008

  • Both are absolute 'individualists' in different senses.

    The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868

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