Sekirov Dictionary

maximalist

noun 6
adjective 4
forms 4

noun6

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A person with maximalist beliefs or tendencies; someone who prefers redundancy or excess, especially in the arts.
- Critics have aptly borrowed those terms to characterize the difference between Mr. Beckett, for example, and his erstwhile master James Joyce, himself a maximalist except in his early works. — 1986
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A supporter of an aggressive or expansive foreign policy.
- But now it is clear that there is no common language with the maximalists directed by Syria, and Mr. Arafat has decided to decide. — 1984
(historical) A member of a radical wing split from the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1906.
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(historical) A member of a radical Marxist party in Italy.
- “Maximalists,” as radical Marxists are called here, and anarchists have always had great influence in Italy's trade‐union movement. — 1973
A proponent of Biblical maximalism, one who affirms the historicity of central Biblical narratives.
(no longer used, historical) A Bolshevik.

adjective4

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Preferring redundancy; tending to do or provide more rather than less.
- Three elephantine examples of that trend have been in the news of late, and they call into question their underlying maximalist presumption that more is more. — 1990
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Aggressive, expansive.
- Mr. Schmidt agreed that “both the Russians and the Americans want results,” but he warned that they have a long way to go from “maximalist” starting positions. — 1981
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(historical) Relating to far-left communism.
- His inclusion in the official delegation to Moscow caused surprise today and was seen as indicative of the Italian Communists' aversion to Maximalist currents in international communism. — 1961
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Relating to religious or Biblical maximalism.
- The case of the Bar Kokhba Revolt is an excellent example of how far the Minimalist and Maximalist interpretations of biblical and even ancient history can be verified. — 2009

forms

Maximalists · maximalists · more maximalist · most maximalist

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