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actionist

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Etymology

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Fromaction +‎-ist.

Noun

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actionist (pluralactionists)

(art, sometimes capitalized) One taking part in theactionism movement.
- 2022, Sascha Bru […] , editors,Crisis: The Avant-Garde and Modernism in Critical Modes, Walter de Gruyter,→ISBN:
  The most radical of all 1960s performers, the VienneseActionists explored a broad spectrum of transgressions up until the end of the 1960s: sodomy, rape, necrophilia, zoophilia, anthropophagy, self-mutilation, and animal sacrifices.
(business, obsolete) Ashareholder in ajoint-stock company.
Synonym:actionary
Synonym ofactivist
- 2008 [1971], Joan Valerie Bondurant, editor,Conflict: Violence and Nonviolence, Transaction Publishers,→ISBN,page155:
  Generally speaking, the risks to theactionists on the one hand, and to the system against which they take action on the other, are least in the case of nonviolent protest and greatest in the case of nonviolent intervention.

Related terms

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direct actionist

Anagrams

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for“actionist”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)