Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who favors or advocates emigration—for example, as a remedy for dull times, overcrowding, or the like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An advocate or promoter of emigration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An advocate or promoter of emigration.
Etymologies
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emigration + -ist
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Examples
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When he changed his mind in 1852, Professor Bell suspected, "he was minimizing his participation in anti-emigrationism of the Forties, and claiming that his emigrationist interests had begun in 1835" (p. 151).
An Exchange on Black History Breeden, James P. 1970
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Thus far and to this extent any man may be an 'emigrationist.'
Frederick Douglass 1906
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Thus far and to this extent any man may be an emigrationist, and thus far and to this extent I certainly am an emigrationist.
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I was once asked by an anti-emigrationist what I thought to be the great evil with which we had to contend, if it were not the great influx of ignorant foreigners?
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