Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One whose views are partial; one who knows or sees only a part of anything.
  • noun One who is partial.
  • noun In theology, one who holds that the atonement was made for only a part of mankind.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare One who is partial.
  • noun (Theol.) One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the elect.

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  • noun One who is partial.
  • noun theology One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, i.e. for the elect.

Etymologies

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partial +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • I've either called the partialist on it, or changed (well, added) the right test(s) if indicated.

    Why I Do Blood Draws 1 Dinosaur 2009

  • A virtue theorist, for instance, might make a significant place for impartiality by selecting it as one of the virtues; but a virtue of this sort would presumably have to compete with other deeply partialist virtues such as loyalty, which would override impartiality in at least some contexts.

    Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

  • Although many people continue to speak of a ˜partialist vs. impartialist debate,™ it should by now be clear that neither

    Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

  • The fact remains that there are many types of partialist theories, and many types of impartialist ones, and that continuing to speak of the

    Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

  • A moderate partialist, by contrast, would admit that impartiality of some sort plays a moral role, but deny that this role encompasses, or grounds, all of morality; in particular, such a figure would be committed to the existence, in some contexts at least, of irreducible morally admirable partiality.

    Impartiality Jollimore, Troy 2006

  • Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask’d anything of America?

    As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores 1900

  • Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?

    The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855

  • Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

  • Is it that every man believes every other to be an incurable partialist, and himself an universalist?

    Essays: Second Series (1844) 1844

  • Is it that every man believes every other to be an incurable partialist, and himself a universalist?

    Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

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  • "One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the elect" dictionary.com

    August 28, 2008