evolutionism
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
If Spencer had begun by putting to himself the question of the hereditability of acquired characters, his evolutionism would no doubt have taken an altogether different form.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
The air was thick with whiffs and foretastes of evolutionism, and the two budding naturalists of the Amazons expedition had inhaled them eagerly with every breath.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
And while Dewey accepts an evolutionary view of reality in general, the idealist has found evolutionism, at least in its biological form, too limited in scope to serve the extensive interests of philosophy.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
Twenty-one years had come and gone since the father of modern scientific evolutionism had launched upon the world his tentative work.
From Charles Darwin by Grant Allen
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word