Definition of Negativists

1. negativist [n] - See also: negativist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Negativists

negative verbs
negative zero
negatived
negatively
negatively bathmotropic
negatively charged
negatively dromotropic
negativeness
negativenesses
negatives
negativing
negativism
negativisms
negativist
negativistic
negativists (current term)
negativities
negativity
negativization
negativizations
negativize
negativized
negativizes
negativizing
negaton
negatons
negator
negators
negatory
negatron

Literary usage of Negativists

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1919)
"They endeavour to persuade the positivists that the negativists are merely young people who have been embittered by poverty, whose behaviour will be quiet ..."

2. The Reform Movement in Judaism by David Philipson (1907)
"... subject in full earnestness they would give evidence to the world that they are not negativists and destroyers, but conservers and builders.1 Schott, ..."

3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"... and who had leisure to trouble themselves about doctrinal consideration«, might be in some danger of becoming negativists. To your Poets ! My Public. ..."

4. Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau (1895)
"... M. Paul Desjardins,J makes continual attacks on 'so-called scientific empiricism,' and speaks of the ' negativists, the empiricists, and the mechanists, ..."

5. The Standard by American Ethical Union (1920)
"This interpretation is impossible for doubters, fault-finders, and melancholy or indifferent negativists; it is also impossible for moralists who allow ..."

6. The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine (1871)
"We disdain, however, to fight on unfair terms, and we therefore give our negativists the opportunity of controverting the form of thought which the above ..."

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