[f. as prec. + -IST. So Sw. ultraist.] One who holds extreme opinions; an extremist.
1842. G. S. Faber, Prim. Doctr. Election (ed. 2), I. i. 5, note. Those high-vaulting Ultraists, who professedly treat with contempt the harmonious voice of Aboriginal Antiquity.
1875. O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. Life, Crime and Automatism (1891), 357. Obviously these reformers are not fanatics; they are not ultraists or Utopians.
Hence Ultraistic a., tending to extremes in opinion or practice.
1840. G. S. Faber, Christ’s Disc. Capernaum, Ded. p. xx. Our ultraistic friend,… in his own insulated strength confident against the world in arms.
1877. Sparrow, Serm., ix. 115. This unmeasured, exaggerated and ultraistic mode of drawing inferences.
