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Loyalist vs Reformist - What's the difference?

loyalist | reformist |

As nouns the difference between loyalist and reformist

is that loyalist is a person who is loyal to a cause, generally used as a political affiliation while reformist is one who advocates reform (of an institution).

As an adjective reformist is

advocating reform of an institution or body.

loyalist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is loyal to a cause, generally used as a political affiliation.

    • reformist

    English

    (Reformism)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Advocating reform of an institution or body.
  • * 1913
    • [...] all the prose is German, all reformist, all moralising, and has little or practically no echo of antiquity.
  • Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.

    • Antonyms

    * (advocating small changes ) revolutionary

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who advocates reform (of an institution).
  • Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
  • An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
  • An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from ca 1790 to 1830.)
  • A member of a reformed religious denomination.

    • References

    * * Hélyot, Dictionnaire des Ordres Religieux , Paris, Migne, 1850

    Quotations

    * (seeCites) (entry for reformist in the Oxford English Dictionary, first edition)

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