Power Suffixes: -arian

To begin at the beginning—the Alphabetical Blocks and Educational tables from which our Southern abecedarian takes his initial lesson, were projected and manufactured in the North. Helper, Hinton Rowan

The first was the argument, made by a geologist and an antiquarian, that animal remains found alongside stone tools in Britain and France proved the antiquity of the human race. New York Times (Jan 17, 2019)

He was a generous kind of authoritarian; the park was indisputably his own vision, but he encouraged free-flowing creativity from below. New York Times (Nov 25, 2019)

His father was a strict disciplinarian who insisted that his four sons — Frederick, Charles, and fraternal twins David and William — perform manual labor to foster a strong work ethic. Washington Post (Aug 23, 2019)

Bryan Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative — an organization dedicated to “fighting for the poor who need it most” — is a notable humanitarian. Salon (Dec 23, 2019)

Their public rebellion, combined with pressure and lawsuits from local civil libertarians, forced the government to retreat. New York Times (Feb 27, 2020)

In addition to comparing the brains of the high-performing octogenarians to subjects in their fifties and sixties, the researchers also looked at cognitively average individuals in their 80s. Scientific American (Nov 16, 2011)

Yet she was no less determined to shed the skin of her middle-class background, to reinvent herself as a kind of Pan-European proletarian. New York Times (Oct 12, 2018)

Although eventually surpassed by the King James Version, the Geneva Bible remained a popular favorite through its last printing around 1644, especially among the sectarians known as the Puritans. Washington Times (May 11, 2019)

This is the lesson that we should draw from the history of the 20th century, in which tyrants and totalitarians confronted ‘soft power’ with a simple response: submit or die. Forbes (Aug 18, 2014)

A utilitarian might weigh up the evasion according to scale and how it affects the greater good. BBC (Jul 24, 2012)

‘No. For purely private reasons I am a vegetarian, but it does not matter if you wish to cook the collards with a piece of meat.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

I’m going to be a veterinarian and operate on the biggest animals on the planet—elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes, hippopotamuses. Dreaming in Cuban