Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who feels sympathy; a sympathizer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who sympathizes; a sympathizer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
sympathizes ; asympathizer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bare with me, since while I'm a kind of sympathist to the theory of Nostratic, I hardly believe that Bomhard and Kerns are completely on the ball with it and there are many series which they consider cognate but which I think are more likely more recent loans, particularly so when they list a supposed cognate series with only PIE and Proto-Semitic data to substantiate their reconstructions.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Bare with me, since while I'm a kind of sympathist to the theory of Nostratic, I hardly believe that Bomhard and Kerns are completely on the ball with it and there are many series which they consider cognate but which I think are more likely more recent loans, particularly so when they list a supposed cognate series with only PIE and Proto-Semitic data to substantiate their reconstructions.
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Gustavo, listen, man I get accused of being a police sympathist because, you know, it's pretty well-known that my best friend of 28 years - just about 30 - is a police officer, so I know that that's a tough gig.
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I remain a Nostratic sympathist myself, seeing the hope and positive probability of the language family, but I also recognize that even prominent Nostraticists continue to make serious errors based on their inaccurate understandings of the various language groups involved.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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I remain a Nostratic sympathist myself, seeing the hope and positive probability of the language family, but I also recognize that even prominent Nostraticists continue to make serious errors based on their inaccurate understandings of the various language groups involved.
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Del Ratsch, ID sympathist and author of Nature, Design, and Science darwinfinch
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Gustavo, listen, man I get accused of being a police sympathist because, you know, it's pretty well-known that my best friend of 28 years - just about 30 - is a police officer, so I know that that's a tough gig.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Or is that one of the lessons like "The War of Northern Aggression" that's "edited" in Southern and southern-sympathist schools.
Sadly, No! 2009
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Does that make you a terrorist apologist? or a suicide bomber sympathist?
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Does that make you a terrorist apologist? or a suicide bomber sympathist?
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