Noun
One who modernizes.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe clerical class had been on the defensive ever since the 1920s when the secular, anti-clerical modernizer Reza Shah Pahlavi rose to power. Source: Internet
Shiki main Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902) was a reformer and modernizer. Source: Internet
Jon Caramanica, other music critic of The New York Times, called Houston "R&B's great modernizer", adding "slowly but surely reconciling the ambition and praise of the church with the movements and needs of the body and the glow of the mainstream". Source: Internet