maximalist

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  1. noun One who advocates direct or radical action to secure a social or political goal in its entirety: "the maximalists . . . who want the undivided land” (Arthur Hertzberg).

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  • The place has just been feeling a bit too cluttered lately, even by my own extreme-maximalist tastes.
  • Whereas his previous novels had been characterised by an audacious "maximalist" style featuring extensive footnotes and epic diversions, in The Pale King Wallace was attempting to move in a new, more straightforward technical direction. —  The Guardian World News
  • As such, it is a gallery unto itself, with roughly as many works, each with roughly as many details as the maximalist canvases of J.M.W. Turner that are now on view at the Met. —  New York Sun - All Articles
  • Therefore, the high probability is that such a "maximalist" strategy has been deliberately crafted at this stage at the outset of the Obama presidency with intent that it can always be finessed as the war progresses and if the commanders on the field fail to deliver. —  The Hindu - Front Page
  • Bhatia also drew attention to what he called the recent trend toward a 'maximalist' approach to the enforcement of intellectual property, or IP, norms in various international fora. —  ICTSD
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  1. Russian maksimalist, name applied in 1906 to an extreme splinter group of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party, ultimately from Latin maximum, maximum; see maximum.
 

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