[f. as prec. + -IST.] One who advocates emigration.
1827. Standard, 10 Oct., 2/3. Did not the increase of population, which Mr. Malthus avers to have taken place in Ireland, go on concurrently with the Peninsular war, and with a draft from the young male population of the island, tenfold greater than the maddest emigrationist ever proposed?
