Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A supporter of (political) transformism.
- Of or pertaining to transformism, in either sense.
- noun A believer in or an advocate of the doctrine of transformism, in any sense.
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- noun a believer or follower of
transformism - adjective of, or relating to transformism
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Examples
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All this is a chain of highly logical deductions, and it hangs together with a certain air of reality, such as we like to look for in a host of "transformist" arguments which are put forward as irrefutable.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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If I were a "transformist" how I should delight in this question!
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The basic idea I intended to communicate was that it should not be accepted without argument that "The notion of" species "is most logically consistent with a creationist view," and even that it is also not the case that it is "more consistent" with a creationist view than with a transformist view.
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German Naturphilosophen, embodied the notion of successive creation or spontaneous generation of kinds, and hence were not transformist.
EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968
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There is the stumbling-block of the usual transformist theories, and Mr Bergson devotes to it a closely argued and singularly penetrating criticism, by an example which he analyses in detail.
A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912
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So that, all things considered, the transformist hypothesis looks more and more like a close approximation to the truth.
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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Buffon, like many another man, from St. Augustine down to his own times, considered the transformist explanation of living nature.
Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893
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Lamarck_ and a _Dîner Lamarck_, to maintain and perpetuate the memory of the great French transformist.
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This is what I should say if I were a "transformist."
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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I am a customer experience transformist; helping large organizations improve business results by changing how they deal with customers.
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