Comtist
Comtist noun: a follower of Comtism.
Noun
Comtist (plural Comtists)
- A follower of Comtism.
- I am not aware that there is any sect of Agnostics; and if there be, I am not its acknowledged prophet or pope. I desire to leave to the Comtists the entire monopoly of the manufacture of imitation ecclesiasticism.1889, Thomas Henry Huxley, Agnosticism
- The implied critique of the Comtists is clear: they imagined themselves an advance on the creators of putative sciences de l'homme, where they were in fact a wrong-headed deviation from the work initiated by their supposed intellectual progenitors.2017, Mark Bevir, Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 175
- Synonyms:
- positivist
Synonyms of Comtist
Forms of Comtist
| plural | Comtists |
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Origin of Comtist
From (Auguste) Comte + -ist.
Questions about Comtist
- What does Comtist mean?
- Comtist means a follower of Comtism.
- What part of speech is Comtist?
- Comtist is a noun.
- What is the plural of Comtist?
- The plural of Comtist is Comtists.
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