vegetarianist

English

Etymology

From vegetarian +‎ -ist.

Noun

vegetarianist (plural vegetarianists)

1. A proponent of vegetarianism.
   • 1873, Henry Lawson, “Chapter V”, in A Manual of Popular Physiology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Science of Life in Untechnical Language, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 24:

     As “there is never smoke without fire,” so do we see there is some truth in the view of vegetarianists.

   • 1954, L. Sprague de Camp, Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature, Gnome Press, page 263:

     The Atlanteans are handsome long-lived vegetarianists and eugenists whose society is a utopian communism without money, officials chosen by competitive examination, and careers assigned by a committee of personnel experts.

   • 1956, Benjamin F. Miller, The Complete Medical Guide, Simon and Schuster, page 37:

     For every vegetarianist who attributes his healthy old age to his diet, we have seen an even older person who gives credit to something else, perhaps the fact that he eats beef every day.

   • 1982, Atanas Slavov, Mr. Lampedusa Has Vanished, Occidental Press, →ISBN, page 51:

     […] and they thud in the loess and leave footprints / for the paleontologists to jump around / and the angry young men / ask the timid old animals / how could they be so big and be vegetarianists / Funny

   • 1996, M. Rajaretnam, editor, Jose Rizal and the Asian Renaissance, Institut Kajian Dasar and Solidaridad Publishing House, →ISBN, page 116:

     Gandhi was obviously more attracted by non-conformist groups like anarchists, free thinkers, vegetarianists, socialists and communists, which were all active in the metropolis of the imperialist world.

   • 2001, Roland R. Maust, Grappling with Death: The Union Second Corps Hospital at Gettysburg, the Press of Morningside, →ISBN, page 418:

     Thompsonians, vegetarianists, hydropaths, chromothermalists, even self-taught native “doctors” all ended up serving side by side with the skilled surgeons of the Army Medical Corps in times of extreme crisis.

   • 2007, Catherine Candy, “Chapter Nine: Untouchability, Vegetarianism and the Suffragist Ideology of Margaret Cousins”, in Louise Ryan, Margaret Ward, editors, Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens, Irish Academic Press, →ISBN, page 162:

     Cousins also reminded vegetarianists that: ‘The suffrage movements are more closely connected with the Food Reform movement than the enthusiasts of either are usually aware of.’

   • 2015, Stephanie Kraftson, Jana Pohorelsky, Alex Myong, “Chapter 1: Are Meat-Based Diets Bad for the Planet?”, “Overview: People Choose Their Diets Based on Personal Reasons”, in Amy Francis, editor, Vegetarianism, Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, page 24:

     Scholars and bloggers appear to agree: human vegetarianism is a healthy option for the environment. / But anti-vegetarianists aren’t the only people who call upon the rhetoric of “choice” with regards to eating or not eating meat: many vegetarians weigh in on the debate by addressing environmental concerns while specifying that these were not their primary reason for “going vegetarian.”

Adjective

vegetarianist (comparative more vegetarianist, superlative most vegetarianist)

1. Pertaining to vegetarianism.
   • 1967, Harold Sherman, “Wonder” Healers of the Philippines, DeVorss & Co., page 237:

     And he was quite vegetarianist until the age of twenty-one.

   • 1992, Steven E. Aschheim, “Chapter IV. Nietzscheanism Institutionalized”, in The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany: 1890-1990, University of California Press, published 1994, →ISBN, pages 112–113:

     Early in the century a vegetarianist postcard—featuring a woodcut of Hans Olde’s famous portrait of Nietzsche—carried an apocryphal quote from Nietzsche: “I believe that the vegetarian with his prescription to eat less and more simply, has been more beneficial than all the new moral systems combined” (illus. 11).

   • 1996, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, page 556:

     That there are in fact so many variant opinions—and so very many writings in prose and poetry by Shelley himself in which vegetarianist ideology plays a major role in substance or in figuration—reminds us again of what a major preoccupation this subject was with the short-lived poet.

   • 2007, Catherine Candy, “Chapter Nine: Untouchability, Vegetarianism and the Suffragist Ideology of Margaret Cousins”, in Louise Ryan, Margaret Ward, editors, Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens, Irish Academic Press, →ISBN, pages 155, 161:

     Cousins’ orientalist thinking was largely inspired by a long history of late nineteenth century British vegetarianist feminist thinking which was in some part later formalised by the Theosophical Society, which she, together with a remarkable number of Irish writers of the period, would join. […] Cousins’ friends may not have been quite so far off the mark when they attributed her sexual trauma to her vegetarianist politics. Her celibacy and her vegetarianism emerged at precisely the same hour.

Related terms

• vegetarianistic