constructionist

construction +‎ -ist

constructionist (comparative more constructionist, superlative most constructionist)

1. Of, pertaining to, or advocating constructionism.

constructionist (plural constructionists)

1. An advocate of constructionism.
2. One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, such as the United States Constitution.

   a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist

3. (obsolete) One who works in construction.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 242:

     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.

• strict constructionist