Definition of "progressist" []

• One who makes or supports progress; a progressionist. (noun)

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• "This is true darwinism, and the source of the many progressist notions that darwin repeatedly came up with."
• "Darwin just slapped a progressist notion of natural selection onto it to explain the “perfection of adaptation” problem, diectky inspired in the theories of the economists that fathered capitalism."
• "In the parish of Briarfield, with which we have at present to do, Hollow's Mill was the place held most abominable; Gérard Moore, in his double character of semi - foreigner and thorough going progressist, the man most abominated."