Definition of Diffusionists

1. Noun. (plural of diffusionist) ¹

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Definition of Diffusionists

1. diffusionist [n] - See also: diffusionist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diffusionists

diffusion anoxia
diffusion coefficient
diffusion constant
diffusion hypoxia
diffusion limitation
diffusion method
diffusion of innovation
diffusion potential
diffusion pump
diffusion respiration
diffusion shell
diffusional
diffusionism
diffusionisms
diffusionist
diffusionists
diffusionless
diffusions
diffusiophoresis
diffusiophoretic
diffusive
diffusively
diffusiveness
diffusivenesses
diffusivities
diffusivity
diffusometry
diffusor
diffusors
différance

Literary usage of Diffusionists

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

1. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"... especially since Morgan's own occasional rodomontades about historical connection put to shame the most swashbuckling of recent diffusionists : not only ..."

2. The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism by Allan Nevins (1922)
"... formed a plan for circulating copperhead doctrines, or, as they put it, for "the diffusion of knowledge"; whence the Post nicknamed them "diffusionists. ..."

3. The Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery by Eric Robert Papenfuse (1997)
"... Sectional Crises (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980), 8-23. 30. For modern interpretations of the diffusionists similar to my own, ..."

4. Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National by Gustaaf Houtman (1999)
"On the other hand, diffusionists, less concerned with evolution according to set patterns of development, saw 'culture circles' (kultur kreise) which ..."

5. Folk and Hero Tales by James MacDougall, Alfred Trübner Nutt (1891)
"The " diffusionists" were at work here likewise. Hellenic myth was largely claimed as a loan from the older civilisations of the East; Teutonic myth, ..."

6. Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition by Archibald Campbell (1891)
"The " diffusionists" were at work here likewise. Hellenic myth was largely claimed as a loan from the older civilisations of the East ; Teutonic myth, ..."

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