pragmatizer
(ˈprægmətaɪzə(r))
[f. prec. + -er1.]
One who pragmatizes.
| 1847 Fraser's Mag. XXXVI. 16 Pragmatisers, astronomers, and allegorists have worn his labours threadbare. 1866 Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. i. (1871) 3 The pragmatizers take a mythical story; they strip it by an arbitrary process of whatever seems impossible, they explain or allegorize miraculous details [etc.]. 1871 Tylor Prim. Cult. I. x. 368 The pragmatizer is a stupid creature, nothing is too beautiful or too sacred to be made dull and vulgar by his touch. |