interventionist
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French interventionniste.
Adjective
interventionist (comparative more interventionist, superlative most interventionist)
- Of or pertaining to interventionism, or an advocate thereof.
- 1997, “Into My Arms”, in Nick Cave (lyrics), The Boatman’s Call, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
- I don't believe in an interventionist God / But I know, darling, that you do / But if I did, I would kneel down and ask Him / Not to intervene when it came to you
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Noun
interventionist (plural interventionists)
- One who practices or defends interventionism.
- 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:
- Senior players were sceptical to begin with, startled by Conte’s aggressively interventionist training sessions, practice constantly stopped by that barking voice, points of positional detail brutally drilled.
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