declinist
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /dɪˈklaɪnɪst/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A subscriber to declinism.
— Rather than accept this, declinists often explained things that did not happen, with explanations that did not work, based on bad history. Thus declinists insist that British R&D has always been low, the City always over-mighty, the country always in the grip of empire, the state under the imaginative control of classicists and historians rather than technocrats, that industry never stood a chance.
形容词 adj.
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Believing in or tending towards declinism.
— Against a background of almost paralytic gloom and declinist talk, Vienna tried to take on Napoleon, breifly bhecked him at Aspern-Essling and then went down to absolute defeat at Wagram […].
词源
词源 1
From decline + -ist.
词源 2
From decline + -ist.
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