I. ma·ri·nist -ēnə̇st noun
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Italian marinista, from Giambattista Marini + Italian -ista -ist
: one given to Marinism
disdaining the folly of the Marinists — Edmund Gosse
II. ma·rin·ist məˈrēnə̇st noun
( -s )
Etymology: marine (II) + -ist
: one who holds certain features of the earth's surface to be due to marine action rather than the action of other natural forces (as wind, rain, or frost)
every line of escarpments was held by the marinists to be the work of sea waves — Popular Science Monthly