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

  • 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

  • If I were a "transformist" how I should delight in this question!

    Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • 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.

    At What Level did this Evolve? 2009

  • German Naturphilosophen, embodied the notion of successive creation or spontaneous generation of kinds, and hence were not transformist.

    EVOLUTIONISM THOMAS A. GOUDGE 1968

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Lamarck_ and a _Dîner Lamarck_, to maintain and perpetuate the memory of the great French transformist.

    Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work 1872

  • This is what I should say if I were a "transformist."

    Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • I am a customer experience transformist; helping large organizations improve business results by changing how they deal with customers.

    Customer Experience Matters 2010

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