antiˈsocialist
[f. antisocial a. + -ist.]
1. One opposed to sociality. rare.
| 1775 T. Sheridan Reading 343 May justly be termed Antisocialists and..the worst company in the world. |
2. One who is antagonistic to socialism. Also attrib. or as adj.
| 1862 J. S. Mill Pol. Econ. (ed. 5) II. iv. vii. 357 The vitality of these associations..enabled about twenty of them to survive..the antisocialist reaction. 1914 J. Collings Coloniz. Rur. Brit. I. xv. 257 The well-to-do generally are alarmed, and are forming Property Defence Associations, Anti-Socialist Leagues, [etc.]. |