firster

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English

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Etymology 1

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From first +‎ -er (supporter).

Noun

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firster (plural firsters)

  1. (in combination) A person who advocates the primacy of the named entity (who puts it first).
    • 2019, Branden Fitelson, Rodrigo Borges, Cherie Braden, Themes from Klein: Knowledge, Scepticism, and Justification, Springer, →ISBN, page 5:
      In recent years, “knowledge-first” epistemologists have worried that any analysis of knowledge fails to recognize that knowledge is more fundamental than epistemic analysis. Knowledge, the knowledge-firster contends, should be taken as an epistemic primitive.
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Etymology 2

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From first +‎ -er (comparative suffix).

Adjective

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firster (comparative more firster, superlative most firster)

  1. (obsolete) Earlier, former.