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culturist

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Cul´tur`ist
n.1.A cultivator.
2.One who is an advocate of culture.
The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does not ) but those its exclusive advocates who recommend it as the panacea for all the ills of humanity, for its effects in cultivating the whole man.
- J. C. Shairp

culturist
a cultivator or a person who grows things.
See also: Agriculture, Growth
a person who is well acquainted with culture, as literature, the arts, etc., and who advocates their worth to society.
See also: Art, Literature, Representation


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A Good Life in a World Made Good: Albert Eustace Haydon, 1880-1975 introduces humanists, Ethical Culturists, liberal religionists, and freethinkers to the life and work of a genuine humanist pioneer.
The adoption of the euro is a good counter-example against the culturist interpretation according to which the French elite are nationalist and backward-looking.
My grandfather, a physical culturist who devoted his life to the physical and mental well-being of mankind, expressed his ideas through publication of Macfadden's Encyclopedia of Physical Culture, Keeping Fit, numerous books, and various periodicals.
 
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