gradualist
Noun
Meaning
gradualist (plural gradualists)
(biology, politics) One who believes in gradualism.
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Examples
He believed that many trade unionists had settled for a reformist, gradualist approach in that they had refused to struggle on the political front in addition to the economic front.
Feminist advocates within Orthodoxy have tended to stay within the traditional legal process of argumentation, seeking a gradualist approach, and avoiding wholesale arguments against the religious tradition as such.
Reformism is generally associated with social democracy and gradualist democratic socialism.
The national Communists then took power in a normally gradualist manner, backed by the Soviets in many, but not all, cases.
To further cloud understanding, China made its highly successful transition in a gradualist fashion.