limitationist

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Supporting or believing in a certain limitation.

   • 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.
2. 2

   Someone who supports or believes in a certain limitation.

   • Either demand, however, is unreasonable. It in effect invites the limitationists to shut up unless they exhibit detailed knowledge of government (and private) activities that they cannot realistically be expected to have.
   • Whether there needs to be a complete reassessment or whether the current system could be modified to work more effectively fuels the debate between limitationists and globalist^([sic]), which at heart is based upon realist premises.

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