Definition of Gradualist

1. Noun. In evolutionary biology, one who believes in gradualism. ¹

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Definition of Gradualist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gradualist

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gradine
gradines
grading
gradini
gradino
gradins
gradiometer
gradiometers
gradiometry
grads
gradual
gradualism
gradualisms
gradualist (current term)
gradualistic
gradualists
graduality
graduall
gradually
gradualness
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graduals
graduand
graduands
graduate
graduate(a)
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graduate engineers

Literary usage of Gradualist

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

1. Making Markets: Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Post by Shafiqul Islam, Michael Mandelbaum (1993)
"According to this definition, Marer is a gradualist even though he believes ... 1" Interestingly, it is The Economist's version of the gradualist model that ..."

2. Lectures on Slavery, and Its Remedy by Amos Augustus Phelps, Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (1834)
"Mr. gradualist. Not at all. • That would be your absurd and incendiary ... Mr. gradualist. To be sure I do. Well, then, the problem of gradual emancipation. ..."

3. A Debate on Slavery: Held in the City of Cincinnati, on the First, Second by Jonathan Blanchard, Nathan Lewis Rice (1846)
"CM Clay is in favor of gradual emancipation, and proves it by earnest efforts to bring it about. Dr. Rice is a gradualist also, and evinces his zeal in ..."

4. A Debate on Slavery: Held on the First, Second, Third and Sixth Days of by Jonathan Blanchard, Nathan Lewis Rice (1846)
"I could not help remembering too, as I heard his warm zeal for gradual emancipation declared, that there is another Kentuckian who is a gradualist; ..."

5. Inflation and Growth in China: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Beijing edited by Manuel Guitian, Robert Mundell (1998)
"The economic performance of China's economy during the 1980s has been put in a better historical perspective by Zhang and Yi (1995), where the gradualist ..."

6. Internet and Society in Latin America and the Caribbean by Marcelo Bonilla (2004)
"In general, initiatives are "gradualist", ie they involve progressive stages ... They are "gradualist", however, in the sense that use of the Internet will ..."

7. State, Markets, and Just Growth: Development in the Twenty-First Century by Atul Kohli, Chung-in Moon, Georg Sørensen (2003)
"China's gradualist approach to economic reform offered critical advantages compared with the big-bang approach (ie a combination of rapid privatization, ..."

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