universalist
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Following a form of neopaganism, especially Germanic neopaganism, that is supportive of minorities and marginalized groups.
American usage
noun
A proponent of universalism.
noun
A follower of Universalism
noun
Example Sentences
- "In this connection, she notes (1984, p. 42) that in Vata (a language of the Kru family, spoken in the Ivory Coast) the normal word-order is _(VP) XP^✽ V, where XP^✽ represents one or more Complements of the head V of VP, and where V is positioned at the right periphery of V-bar. She notes that in Vata, a finite Clause containing an Auxiliary will have the AUX positioned in I between the subject NP and the VP, with the V positioned at the end of the VP, as in [...] But if I contains no Auxiliary (i.e. is empty), the Verb of the VP will move from V into I, and hence no longer be positioned at the end of VP, but rather in the characteristic I position between NP and VP: cf. [...] Here, the movement of the Verb out of VP-final position ([...]) into I produces an obvious change in the linear ordering of constituents, thus lending clear empirical support to the V MOVEMENT analysis. And Koopman goes on to suggest that given that we have clear empirical motivation for positing a rule of V MOVEMENT for languages such as Vata, universalist considerations argue in favor of adopting the V MOVEMENT analysis rather than the AFFIX MOVEMENT analysis for English, in default of any evidence to the contrary."
- "In tracing the relationships between Western Modernism and the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, the curators took a universalist approach."
- "The universalists place the active nodes of linguistic life—the deep structures—so deep as to defy observation and description."
Etymology
Etymology tree English universal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English universalist From universal + -ist.
Usage
- American usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Religion.