English

Noun

eugenist ‎(plural eugenists)

1. An advocate or supporter of eugenics. [from 20th c.]
   • 1916, James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace= Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2):

     And we have enough of this kind of tyranny already ... the world does not want the eugenist to set it straight....

   • 1929, William J. Robinson, Woman:

     A man who would throw a bomb at the Russian Czar or at a murderous pogrom-inciting Russian Governor would be considered an assassin, and if caught would be hanged; and in making up the pedigree of such a family, a narrow-minded eugenist would be apt to say that there was criminality in that family.

   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 293:

     When it reported in 1908, it took a strongly hereditarian view of mental deficiency, which was not surprising given that many of its members were paid-up eugenists.

Synonyms

• eugenicist

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