disciplinist means A proponent of disciplinism. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From discipline + -ist.
noun
- A proponent of disciplinism.“Or, to put the three views concretely, the formal disciplinist would say that training the reasoning power by mathematics would make one a better lawyer or medical diagnostician; the non-transferrist would say that training in geometry helped geometry but had nothing to do with, say, trigonometry, except in so far as you used identical factors in both; and the inductionist would grant a slight tra”
- A disciplinarian; one who stresses obedience to authority.“La Trappe, a Frenchman, was a gloomy disciplinist and recluse, and a founder of a set of devotees, who are obliged to live in the practice of the utmost austerities, and without ever speaking to each other.”
- One whose job is to enforce discipline.“The prison disciplinist, Jno. Clay, of Preston, claims to be descended from the third sone of Richard Clay, of the Hill, who had five sons and three daughters.”