eugenist
(ˈjuːdʒɪnɪst, juːˈdʒiːnɪst, -ˈdʒɛn-)
[f. eugenic: see -ist.]
A student or advocate of eugenics. Also attrib. or as adj.
| 1908 C. W. Saleeby Health, Strength & Happiness xxiv. 420 There is thus..a quasi-fatalistic element with which the hygienist, as well as the eugenist—to coin a word now necessary—must reckon. 1921 W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts (1926) 247 Prudent eugenists are in no hurry to advocate legislation. 1921 W. McDougall Nat. Welfare p. vii, This great gap in the eugenist argument. 1928 Daily Express 16 Jan. 8/7 Candidates for marriage..may be faced..with a searching Eugenist standard of physical fitness. 1959 B. Wootton Soc. Sci. ii. 55 This multiplicity of their social irregularities which first evoked the interest of the eugenists in these families. |