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Luddite (n.)

also luddite, 1811, the name taken by an organized band of weavers in Midlands and northern England who for about 5 years thereafter destroyed machinery, for fear it would deprive them of work. Supposedly they got it from Ned Ludd, a Leicestershire worker who in 1779 had smashed two machines in a rage, but that story first was told in 1847. Applied by 1961 to modern spurners of automation and technology. As an adjective from 1812.

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Definitions of Luddite from WordNet

Luddite (n.)
any opponent of technological progress;
Luddite (n.)
one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment;
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