mod|ern|ist

mod|ern|ist
mod|ern|ist «MOD uhr nihst», noun, adjective.
–n.
1. a person who holds modern views or uses modern methods: »

The contemporary modernists rebel only with the established forms of Expressionism and Abstractionism (New Yorker).

2. a person who supports the study of modern subjects in preference to the ancient classics.
3. a person who interprets religious teachings in a modern way: »

Christianity for the modernist is a life, not a doctrine (Newsweek).

–adj.
of or having to do with modernists or modernism.

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