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noun
Modernist  n.  
1.
One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
2.
An advocate of the teaching of modern subjects, as modern languages, in preference to the ancient classics.





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"Modernist" Quotes from Famous Books



... incapable of realisation, partly because the idea itself is illusory, but principally because the hold of the Papacy upon the people has been weakened. The agitation, 'Los von Rom' on the one hand, and the 'Modernist' movement on the other, have tended to dissipate the unity and energy of Catholicism. Nevertheless the Church, which is really the society of Christian people, is coming to see that it cannot close its eyes to questions which concern the daily life of man, nor hold aloof from efforts ...
— Christianity and Ethics - A Handbook of Christian Ethics • Archibald B. C. Alexander


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