[f. as prec. + -IST.] One who favors exclusion; one who would exclude another from some privilege.
1822. Hazlitt, Table-t., On Reading New Bks. (1852), 22. And those who claim it for themselves or others are exclusionists in literature.
1825. New Monthly Mag., XVI. 372. I am not … an exclusionist in matters of society.
1841–4. Emerson, Ess., Compensation, Wks. (Bohn), I. 47. The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself in striving to shut out others.
attrib. 1860. Sat. Rev., IX. 7/1. How … could any Minister attempt to remove the relics of the exclusionist system?
b. Eng. Hist. A supporter of the Exclusion Bill: see EXCLUSION 1 b.
1756. Hume, Hist. Eng. (1854), VI. lxviii. 329. The reasoning of the exclusionists appeared the more convincing.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 256. Opponents of the court were called Birminghams, petitioners, and exclusionists.
