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Meanings of meliorist in English

Portuguese
cruzado
Catalan
reformista
Spanish
cruzado

A disputant who advocates reform.

        cruzado
        Usage of meliorist in English
        1
        John's interest was caught for the moment by the word, "meliorist."
        Westways: A Village Chronicle
        2
        But Shakespeare is a meliorist even in Hamlet, and believes that the ailments of man can all be set right.
        The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story
        3
        A pessimist I may be, but it is the habitually hopeful meliorist who is just now perplexed past power to think straight.
        Westways: A Village Chronicle
        4
        "Should I be even a meliorist-asI am-ifI had?"
        The Dweller on the Threshold
        5
        "What is a meliorist, sir?"
        Westways: A Village Chronicle
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for meliorist
        Meliorist through the time