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English
Etymology
From vaccination + -ist.
Noun
vaccinationist (plural vaccinationists)
- (dated, uncommon) A person who supports vaccination.
- Synonyms: pro-vaccinationist, (informal) pro-vaxxer, (informal) vaxxer
- Antonyms: anti-vaccinationist, (informal) anti-vaxxer
1882 February, Henry Bergh, “The Lancet and the Law”, in The North American Review, volume 134, number 303, page 166:What, then, must they think of the law which requires that a like foul virus shall be perforce injected into their own veins, to befoul the whole current of their blood and to introduce all manner of diseases? “But care is taken to have the lymph fresh and pure from the heifer,” say the vaccinationists.
2013, John Rhodes, “The Teeming Humanity of Nations”, in The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease, New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 59:That smallpox could ravage London in the mid-nineteenth century, despite the existence of a new medical measure to prevent it, was a source of great frustration to the vaccinationists. In 1840 the epidemiologist William Farr railed against the fact that five children a day were dying of smallpox in London.
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