anti-vaccinist

adjective

Opposed to vaccination.

Meanings

nounanti-vaccinist (plural anti-vaccinists)

plural anti-vaccinists

  1. alternativeAlternative form of anti-vaccinationist.

    The thorough going Anti-vaccinist is not merely opposed to vaccination, but hates it as the accursed thing.

    2018, Trung Nguyen, C. Killick Millard, The Vaccination Question in the Light of Modern Experience
    2 more examples

    There is not a single case, nor a single argument, that puts the weight of a feather in the scale of the anti-vaccinist.

    1889, Edgar March Crookshank, History and pathology of vaccination v. 1 - Volume 1, page 181

    I was quite accurate in saying that not a single anti-vaccinist was appointed on the Commission. Dr.. Collins was appointed as a sceptic seeking for information, and Mr. Picton, M.P., as opposed to compulsion; if they are now anti-vaccinist, this development has been due to what they have heard before the Commission, but,. as far as I know, has been avowed by neither.

    1893, The British Homoeopathic Review - Volume 37, page 637
adjectiveanti-vaccinist (comparative more anti-vaccinist, superlative most anti-vaccinist)

comparative more anti-vaccinist · superlative most anti-vaccinist

  1. Opposed to vaccination.
    1 more example

    I was quite accurate in saying that not a single anti-vaccinist was appointed on the Commission. Dr.. Collins was appointed as a sceptic seeking for information, and Mr. Picton, M.P., as opposed to compulsion; if they are now anti-vaccinist, this development has been due to what they have heard before the Commission, but, as far as I know, has been avowed by neither.

    1893, The British Homoeopathic Review - Volume 37, page 638
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