constructionist

constructionist

English

Etymology

construction +‎ -ist

Adjective

constructionist (comparative more constructionist, superlative most constructionist)

1. Of, pertaining to, or advocating constructionism.

Noun

constructionist (plural constructionists)

1. An advocate of constructionism.
2. One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, such as the United States Constitution.

   a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist

3. (obsolete) One who works in construction.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 242:

     The gap that remains in the interior will no doubt be eventually bridged over by railway communication; and thus the great continent will no longer be a terra incognita to the general world, who have hitherto only heard of the splendid country through which the railway will pass, from the reports of telegraph constructionists and overlanding parties.

Derived terms

• strict constructionist