vaccinist

vaccine +‎ -ist

vaccinist (plural vaccinists)

1. One who administers vaccines.

   Synonyms: vaccinator, vacciner

   • 2021 April 8, Derek Scally, Naomi O'Leary, “Germany in preliminary talks with Russia to secure Sputnik vaccine”, in The Irish Times:

     German health minister Jens Spahn (right) and Berlin’s health senator Dilek Kalayci (centre) watch 80-year-old vaccinee Rosemarie Langwald getting her second Covid-19 vaccine by vaccinist Tim Ratzloff in the vaccination centre at the fairgriunds in Berlin, on April 5th.

2. (obsolete) One who is in favor of the use of vaccination.

   Synonyms: pro-vaccinationist, pro-vaccinator, (informal) pro-vaxxer, (dated, uncommon) vaccinationist, (informal) vaxxer

   • 1914, The Medical Chronicle, page 195:

     We are thus brought to the point that vaccinists argue that clinicians must not quarrel with them for adopting the same criterion of cure, and the answer to the vaccinist is that he is confusing the issue,

   • 1842, Thomas Brown, An Investigation of the present Unsatisfactory and Defective State of Vaccination, page 22:

     The truth was , I had then never read Dr. Jenner's publications, nor, indeed, those of any other vaccinist or anti-vaccinist , being perfectly satisfied with having ascertained, that the vaccine process enabled the human body to resist the small-pox, whether tested by exposure to the epidemic disease, or by inoculation, and which, from my experience in inoculation with small-pox virus, I considerd to be quite satisfactory, until the proof occurred which occasioned an investigation, which terminated in the opintion I have frequently given to the public.

vaccinist (comparative more vaccinist, superlative most vaccinist)

1. In favor of vaccination.

   Synonyms: pro-vaccination, pro-vaccine, (informal) pro-vax

   • 1893, The British Homoeopathic Review - Volume 37, page 638:

     Instead of its being true that the anti-vaccinationists "alone have been examined so far," the fact is that of the scores of witnesses examined a large proportion are vaccinist.