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ˈwesternism
[f. western a. + -ism.]
1. An idiom or expression peculiar to the Western States of America.
1838Knickerbocker XI. 447, I now recollect but few specimens of Jack's westernisms, and these I think were not his best. 1884Home Missionary (N.Y.) Jan., A Westernism originating in Nebraska, I believe. 1885American IX. 378 It will become better known if he keeps his strength, as an alleged Westernism has it. 1886Harper's Mag. Oct. 773 ‘It hasn't—ah—panned out.’ He involuntarily made a droll face as he uttered this Westernism.
2. Western characteristics, practices, etc., as distinguished from Eastern or Oriental.
1892W. W. Peyton Memor. Jesus 298 Our theology is too Eastern: we want our Westernism in it. 1907Daily Chron. 20 Feb. 3/4 A great moral conflict between the teachings of two schools, the Slavophils and Westernism. |