"extreme radical in the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party" (one who insists on all his demands ), by 1907, from maximal + -ist, based on Russian maksimalist. Related: Maximalism.
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maxillary
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Maxim
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maximalist
Maximilian
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maximist
maximization
maximize
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