deviationist

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Definition of deviationist

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism.
    “The Hsicheng District CCP Committee in Peking Municipality has fully mobilized the masses and led all middle schools in the district to conduct mass debates on the revolution in education, dealing fierce counterblows to the absurd arguments aimed at stirring up the right deviationist wind to reverse previous verdicts in education.”
    “Theirs was the confession, and Mr. Kang turned them out by the dozen throughout his life, expiating one supposed crime after another by denouncing himself as a reactionary element, a deviationist and whatever else was on the political menu that day.”
    “For the Italian journalist Enzo Biagi, he recalled the ride in the "black crow," the prison truck in which he was accompanied by other "deviationists . . . terrorists, Trotskyites, ex-Social Democrats."”

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Etymology

From deviation + -ist.

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