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comparative more constructionist, superlative most constructionist
Of, pertaining to, or advocating constructionism. quotations examples
According to the constructionist approach that dominates queer scholarship, homosexuality and heterosexuality are not essential aspects of the self (biological or otherwise), but culturally and historically specific classifications used to explain and regulate sexuality and to produce docile sexual subjects.
2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, page 97
plural constructionists
An advocate of constructionism. examples
One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, such as the United States Constitution. examples
(obsolete) One who works in construction. quotations
The gap that remains in the interior will no doubt be eventually bridged over by railway communication; and thus the great continent will no longer be a terra incognita to the general world, who have hitherto only heard of the splendid country through which the railway will pass, from the reports of telegraph constructionists and overlanding parties.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 242