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Indianism|ˈɪndɪənɪz(ə)m|
[-ism.]
Action or policy devoted to the interests of Indians; advocacy of (North American) Indians.
1651W. French in Strength out of Weakness (1652) 37 All the while I went on in Indianisme I was going from God. 1871Rep. Indian Affairs (1872) 181 We were in our original Indianism. 1887W. Tirebuck in Longfellow Hyperion, Kavanagh and Trouvères Introd. p. xiii, Those who stood between the culture of Hyperion and Kavanagh, and the wild Indianism of Aimard and Cooper. 1923Spectator 29 Sept. 422/1 In India it works out in unrest..an exaggerated sense of Indianism—the nationalistic idea. 1950Caribbean Q. II. iii. 14 It is in the Antilles, in Cuba and Santo Domingo that one finds the most abundant, and some of the best manifestations of literary Indianism. 1969Indo-Asian Culture Oct. 25 It was after the coming of the Buddha that Indianism travelled fast.
Add:2. a. An American Indian word or expression which has been borrowed into English (or into another language). rare.
1855C. Bristed in Cambr. Ess. I. 68 The term [‘Yankee’] is..remarkable, as being the only Indianism that has found a place among Americanisms. 1973Language & Lang. Behavior Abstr. VII. 185/1 (heading) About new investigations of Indianisms in the Spanish of Mexico.
b. A word or idiom characteristic of Indian English.
1980English World-Wide I. 275 The Indianisms are clearly the result of the use of an adopted ‘alien’ language in a new (un-English) linguistic and cultural context in a non-western country. 1982V. Mehta Family Affair iii. 60 He..was nicknamed Giant-Killer, Bulldozer of Rae Bareli, and Stormy Petrol (the Indianism for ‘stormy petrel’). 1986English Today Apr. 33/2 Indianisms such as inter-communal, interdine and separate eating have the defining context of Hindu-Muslim relationship. |