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  • adjective Opposing modernism.
  • noun One who opposes modernism.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ modernist

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Examples

  • Thus we do not accept the Vatican II texts other than in the light of these solemn declarations (the profession of faith and the antimodernist oath) made before God and the Church.

    Superior of FSSPX Announces New Rosary Crusade, Speaks of Doctrinal Questions 2009

  • The irony is that decades after his death the political vacuum is being filled by the Islam of the Muslim Brotherhood—whose theocratic, antimodernist ideas Nasser had tried to repress.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • The irony is that decades after his death the political vacuum is being filled by the Islam of the Muslim Brotherhood—whose theocratic, antimodernist ideas Nasser had tried to repress.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • This antimodernist nativism pervaded the 1920s, but it was particularly visible in the scientific racism of the eugenics movement, the xenophobia of the "100 percent American" movement, the sharp resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, the post – World War One Red Scare (directed primarily at immigrant radicals), and in a series of draconian immigration restriction acts. 11

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • Well known for their anti-internationalist, anti-New Deal voting records, both subscribed to an anti-Communism that hearkened back to the xenophobic, antimodernist "100 Percent Americanism" of the 1920s.

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • In the ideological struggle between HUAC and Hollywood, the older xenophobic, antiradical, antimodernist tradition of Americanism was pitted against a New Americanism, the more cosmopolitan, modernist, and pluralist popular nationalism of the war years that was broadly shared by the studio moguls, the liberal activists, and the radical dissidents in Hollywood.

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • Prince Charles, a vehement antimodernist, is up to his old tricks again.

    Prince Charles Tears Down Mr. Rogers's Neighborhood 2009

  • But it began and remained more fundamen¬tally an antimodernist recovery and rearticulation of Western and English con¬stitutionalism on the classical and medi¬eval patterns identified with the seventeenth century of Sir Edward Coke, a principal figure of the Elizabethan Renaissance, and of John Locke, himself a principal enlightener…

    Archive 2008-05-04 papabear 2008

  • But it began and remained more fundamen¬tally an antimodernist recovery and rearticulation of Western and English con¬stitutionalism on the classical and medi¬eval patterns identified with the seventeenth century of Sir Edward Coke, a principal figure of the Elizabethan Renaissance, and of John Locke, himself a principal enlightener…

    Archive 2008-05-01 papabear 2008

  • The Catholic Church even had an “antimodernist oath”, endorsed by several popes of the like of Saint Pius X, an oath that was “just discontinued” in 1967.

    Pope Bene does America | ultraorange.net 2008

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