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Interventionist

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to interventionism, or an advocate thereof. not-comparable

    "I don't believe in an interventionist God / But I know, darling, that you do / But if I did, I would kneel down and ask Him / Not to intervene when it came to you"

Noun
  1. 1
    One who practices or defends interventionism.

    "The liberal interventionists and neoconservatives who have accused the administration of failing to lead never laid out an effective case as to what the relationship between U.S. military action and the political end state in Syria would be."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French interventionniste, equivalent to intervention + -ist.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French interventionniste, equivalent to intervention + -ist.

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