programmist

One who supports a programme or schedule, especially politically.

Noun

  1. One who supports a programme or schedule, especially politically.
    • But these first theorists and programmists of communism, who conceived their programmes after the fashion of an economic enterprise, a hygienic reform, or an educational institution[…] - 1953, Benedetto Croce, History...
    • In Quebec in 1875 he was ultramontane, programmist, out-Veuilloting Veuillot, swearing by Mgr. Bourget and Mgr. Lafleche[…] - 1965, Oscar Douglas Skelton, David Morice Leigh Farr, Life and letters of Sir Wilfrid...

    Synonyms: programmatist

  2. A composer of program music.
    • the leit-motif, that much-vaunted invention of programmists - 1916, Daniel Gregory Mason, The Art of Music: The Opera:
    • Yet all the while I find myself seriously distrusting the psychological validity of the current classification of composers into absolutists and programmists or impressionists. - 1999, Edward Sapir, Regna Darnell,...

    Synonyms: programmatist

Origin

From programme + -ist.

Forms

programmists