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meliorist, n.
(meliorists)

a disputant who advocates reform
<noun.person>

crusader meliorist reformer reformist social reformer

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reformist reformism reform reform reform

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disputant, controversialist, eristic

hyponym

abolitionist, emancipationist birth-control campaigner, birth-control reformer Chartist civil rights leader, civil rights worker, civil rights activist demonstrator, protester dry, prohibitionist environmentalist, conservationist feminist, women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber hippie, hippy, hipster, flower child rebel, insurgent, insurrectionist, freedom fighter militant, activist non-resistant, passive resister preservationist Utopian

instance hyponym

Comstock, Anthony Comstock Dix, Dorothea Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix Huss, John Huss, Hus, Jan Hus Owen, Robert Owen Savonarola, Girolamo Savonarola Townsend, Francis Everett Townsend Wilkes, John Wilkes