Antedating of "Isolationist"

[Fred Shapiro]

isolationist (OED 1899)

1898 _Chicago Daily Tribune_ 4 Sept. 30  The anti-extensionists -- the
mugwumps and Bryanites -- use the term "imperialist" by applying it to
everybody who is not an isolationist.

Fred Shapiro


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