OED: Futurism

[faustus]

Some of you have access to electronic OEDs. I wonder if you be so kind as to tell who the citation for "futurism" in 1842 is - supposibly it's a reference to Christian Eschatology, and the quote would be useful. Anything earlier than 1842?


Thanks1

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[oursin]

'Futurism' earliest OED citation 1909, 'futurist', however, is the 1842 one.
1. Theol.


a. One who believes that the Scripture prophecies, esp. those in the Book of Revelation, are still to be fulfilled in the future.
1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) I. 88 (note) , Dr. Todd and Mr. Mac-Causland‥are alike stanch Antiprotestant Futurists.
1854 D. S. Desprez Apocal. Fulfilled i. 2 We have Præterists and Futurists—one class of interpreters believing that the Apocalypse was fulfilled in the first three or four centuries of the Christian æra; another class maintaining that, with the exception of the three first chapters, none of it is fulfilled.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 227.



b. attrib. passing into adj.
1878 H. G. Guinness Approaching End of Age Pref. (1880) 5 The futurist school of prophetic interpreters.
1881 Church Times 25 Feb. 121 To give themselves up‥to idle futurist speculations.



2. One who has regard to or studies the future; a believer in human progress.
1846 in J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang.
1936 G. K. Chesterton Autobiogr. 25 The one thing forbidden to such futurists was Looking Backwards.
1956 A. Toynbee Historian's Approach to Relig. vi. 79 The futurists are revolutionaries who consciously and deliberately set out to break with a disintegrating social past in order to create a new society.
1964 E. M. Forster in Granta 15 Feb. 9/1 Traction Engine: I shall pass often enough in the future. Punt: A Futurist! Better and better.
1971 Observer 10 Jan. 21/7 A man whose name had often been mentioned respectfully by other futurists.

[faustus]

Thanks, I'd clearly mangled the two terms in my head - 1909 is presumably Marinetti.

[oursin]

Not in sources in English, apparently:
1909 Daily Chron. 5 May 6/6 ‘Futurism’ is the declaration of the new school of literature grounded by the International Review ‘Poesia’.

[faustus]

I guess the OED isn't going to cite Italian newspapers and such like. Not such if Poesia links up to that - but I suspect that this is off the map. (Three days buried in four flavours of eschatology is enough). Thanks again.

[faustus]

"not sure" not "not such"