Definition of "sympathist" []

• One who sympathizes; a sympathizer. (noun)

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• "Bare with me, since while I'm a kind of sympathist to the theory of Nostratic, I hardly believe that Bomhard and Kerns are completely on the ball with it and there are many series which they consider cognate but which I think are more likely more recent loans, particularly so when they list a supposed cognate series with only PIE and Proto-Semitic data to substantiate their reconstructions."
• "Gustavo, listen, man I get accused of being a police sympathist because, you know, it's pretty well-known that my best friend of 28 years - just about 30 - is a police officer, so I know that that's a tough gig."
• "I remain a Nostratic sympathist myself, seeing the hope and positive probability of the language family, but I also recognize that even prominent Nostraticists continue to make serious errors based on their inaccurate understandings of the various language groups involved."