Meaning of limitationist | Babel Free

Definitions

Supporting or believing in a certain limitation.

Examples

“Thus, to a reader who was also a listener, the tone of the article could have conveyed a less encompassing, indeed limitationist, notion of containment than the text itself did.”

“The word "nativism" first appeared in the 1830s. It described one part of the limitationist strain that ran through America for a century.”

“Then Federal Minister of Environment Antonin Vavrougek had strongly criticized the entire project while working at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, taking a more limitationist view about the possibilities of generating electricity and a more alarmist view about the effect on drinking water supplies.”

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