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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