Settlerist
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who promotes or believes in settlerism.
"...this study demonstrates no only that relations of western domination against African militancy shape the activities and goals of otherwise unique liberal agencies, but also that the programs actually benefit western domination while retarding African liberation more effectively than those of the settlerists or the right-wing in general."
- 1 Characteristic of or pertaining to settlerism.; Promoting emigration as a settler.
"Souther California was 'perfect bliss on earth', an 'Earthly Eden unsurpassed', 'A Southern California Paradise'. Another old settlerist nerve struck by California boosters was the availability of a life as well as a living, leisure as well as wealth."
- 2 Characteristic of or pertaining to settlerism.; Asserting the rights and privileges of settlers over others (such as indigenous people).
"So this period saw a gradual polarisation with the settlerist position consolidating itself against the liberal interventionist camp and the African majority."
Example
More examples"Souther California was 'perfect bliss on earth', an 'Earthly Eden unsurpassed', 'A Southern California Paradise'. Another old settlerist nerve struck by California boosters was the availability of a life as well as a living, leisure as well as wealth."
Etymology
From settler + -ist.
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