Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who feels sympathy; a sympathizer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare One who sympathizes; a sympathizer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who sympathizes; a sympathizer.

Etymologies

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sympathy +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Bare with me, since while I'm a kind of sympathist to the theory of Nostratic, I hardly believe that Bomhard and Kerns are completely on the ball with it and there are many series which they consider cognate but which I think are more likely more recent loans, particularly so when they list a supposed cognate series with only PIE and Proto-Semitic data to substantiate their reconstructions.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Bare with me, since while I'm a kind of sympathist to the theory of Nostratic, I hardly believe that Bomhard and Kerns are completely on the ball with it and there are many series which they consider cognate but which I think are more likely more recent loans, particularly so when they list a supposed cognate series with only PIE and Proto-Semitic data to substantiate their reconstructions.

    PIE "look-alike stems" - *(s)kerp- vs. *gʰrebʰ- 2009

  • Gustavo, listen, man I get accused of being a police sympathist because, you know, it's pretty well-known that my best friend of 28 years - just about 30 - is a police officer, so I know that that's a tough gig.

    'Shop Talk': Rodney King engaged to Juror No. 5 2010

  • I remain a Nostratic sympathist myself, seeing the hope and positive probability of the language family, but I also recognize that even prominent Nostraticists continue to make serious errors based on their inaccurate understandings of the various language groups involved.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • I remain a Nostratic sympathist myself, seeing the hope and positive probability of the language family, but I also recognize that even prominent Nostraticists continue to make serious errors based on their inaccurate understandings of the various language groups involved.

    Phoenix discusses Nostratic 2008

  • Del Ratsch, ID sympathist and author of Nature, Design, and Science darwinfinch

    Who is minding the store? - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Gustavo, listen, man I get accused of being a police sympathist because, you know, it's pretty well-known that my best friend of 28 years - just about 30 - is a police officer, so I know that that's a tough gig.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Or is that one of the lessons like "The War of Northern Aggression" that's "edited" in Southern and southern-sympathist schools.

    Sadly, No! 2009

  • Does that make you a terrorist apologist? or a suicide bomber sympathist?

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • Does that make you a terrorist apologist? or a suicide bomber sympathist?

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

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