Meanings
nounstandpatter (plural standpatters)
plural standpatters · alternative stand-patter
- One who is resistant to change.
Brownell, More and Babbitt—the names often formed a triad, and yet Brownell never held explicitly the general ideas worked out by More and Babbitt. The bond was sympathetic, but intellectually not clearly established. I once ventured to call Brownell a Victorian standpatter.
1930, Gorham Munson, The Dilemma of the Liberated, page 62
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