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verkramp, pred. a. S. Afr.|fɛrˈkramp|
Also verkrampte |-ˈkramptə| when used attrib.
[a. Afrikaans, lit. ‘narrow, cramped’.]
Narrow or reactionary in political, religious, social, etc., matters.
1968Green Bay Tree 29 June p. xlv, The most verkrampte Nationalist politicians are frightened of liberal foreign propaganda appearing on their screens. 1969Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 24 Aug., On a very strict, narrow interpretation, my guess is that most Nationalists are verkramp. 1971Ibid. 11 Apr. 3 Mr. ― is verkramp. He can make what threats he likes, I'll keep on wearing split skirts. 1973Deb. Senate S. Afr. 17 May 2790 A Sunday paper fairly recently referred to certain members of the United Party as a ‘verkrampte mafia’. This was not defamatory. 1974Argus (Cape Town) 2 Aug. 3/2 It is believed that conservative resistance to more enlightened policies has been significantly reduced and that verkrampte views will in future meet with little sympathy. 1974Rand Daily Mail 30 Nov. 1/1 This reasoning has now become an excellent excuse for talking verlig and acting verkramp. 1977Time 31 Oct. 19/3 The Cabinet was clearly aware of charges by the verkrampte (conservative) wing of the Nationalist Party that the government's power and authority were eroding in the face of protests by urban blacks. 1981Observer 5 Apr. 11/7 Like most black African Muslims, Edvis favours a liberal interpretation of the Koran, being verligte rather than verkrampte in that regard. Very wisely he likes to drink Pinot Noir from California.
Hence (the attrib. form verkrampte) as n. A person with rigidly traditional views, esp. as regards apartheid and the preservation of white supremacy. Cf. verlig a.
At first applied only to politicians but now extended to any person holding narrow-minded or ultra-conservative views on social, religious, etc., matters.
1967Race Relations News Sept. 7/4 The verligtes–verkramptes controversy must have raised in many minds the hope of a change of outlook in influential South African circles. 1968Economist 17 Aug. 32/2 The real object was to strengthen Mr Vorster in the ideological dispute that has arisen within his party in recent months between the verligte (‘enlightened’) wing and the verkramptes (that is, literally, the cramped ones). 1969Times 18 Sept. 9/1 The Army and its political directors have come in for much criticism..from Unionist verkramptes, for apparent irresolution in bringing down the barricades. 1971Leader (Durban) 7 May 6/5 With a so-called outward-looking policy, the Government is beginning to see things in better light. It has shaken itself of some of the old die-hard Calvinistic verkramptes and is able to look at the world at large a little verlig. 1979Economist 8 Sept. 59/3 Now Transvaal verkramptes (Conservatives) are saying he exploited Muldergate to destroy their leaders. |