Vaccinationist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who supports vaccination. dated, uncommon
"What, then, must they think of the law which requires that a like foul virus shall be perforce injected into their own veins, to befoul the whole current of their blood and to introduce all manner of diseases? “But care is taken to have the lymph fresh and pure from the heifer,” say the vaccinationists."
Example
More examples"They seem to be unable to look at small-pox from any other point of view than that of the vaccinationist, and thus miss the essential features of the evidence they have before them."
Etymology
From vaccination + -ist.
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