[f. UNIFY v. (see -ATION), or a. F. unification, It. unificazione.] The action or process of unifying or uniting; reduction to unity or to a uniform system; the result of this.
Unificationist, sb. and a., has had some slight currency in recent use (1909–).
1851. Gallenga, Italy, II. i. 25. The unification of Italy would thus be gradual and pacific.
1865. Lecky, Ration., I. 231. A process of transformation or unification of religious ideas.
1880. E. Kirke, Garfield, 46. The recent movement for the unification and preservation of nations.
1911. National Rev., LVII. May, 527. It is hard for an Englishman, watching the development of less than five millions of British folk (for Australia is overwhelmingly British from the racial point of view) constantly sorting and re-sorting themselves in a continent of remarkably homogeneous climatic conditions, to be anything but a unificationist.
So Unificator, a unifier.
1870. Contemp. Rev., XV. 400. The people … proclaimed them in anticipation the ‘unificators’ of Italy.
