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miscegenation|ˌmɪsɪdʒɪˈneɪʃən|
[irreg. f. L. miscē-re to mix + gen-us race + -ation.]
Mixture of races; esp. the sexual union of whites with Negroes.
1864(title) Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, applied to the American White Man and Negro. Reprinted from the New York Edition. 1878Stanley Dark Cont. I. 44 By this process of miscegenation, the Arabs are already rapidly losing their rich colour. 1889Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 27 Feb. 4/4 Miscegenation in Kentucky... The penalty for miscegenation is three years' imprisonment. 1902Pilot 27 Dec. 540/2 The danger of ‘miscegenation’..ought to warn us against introducing Oriental settlers into South Africa. 1927M. M. Bennett Christison ii. 29 ‘Miscegenation’ being official jargon for what Governor Bourke called ‘detaining black women by force’. 1971Sunday Times 20 June 29/6 [He] must inaugurate ‘creative miscegenation’ by marrying a Chinese girl.
fig.1865E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 64 It is an..effort to engraft Christian ideas upon the heathen stock of Grecian mythology... In beautiful..contrast with this ostentatious group of Christian and pagan miscegenation is [etc.]. 1884J. Hawthorne N. Hawthorne & Wife II. 178 The lower regions of palaces come to strange uses in Rome; a cobbler or a tinker perhaps exercises his craft under the archway; a work-shop may be established in one of the apartments; and similar miscegenations.
So (mostly nonce-wds.) ˈmiscegen [back-formation] = miscegenate; ˈmiscegenate n. [see -ate2 3], the issue of a union between people of different races; ˈmiscegenate v., to produce miscegenation; ˈmiscegenated ppl. a., produced by miscegenation; misceˈgenesis (in quot. misci-) = miscegenation; miscegeˈnetic, misceˈgenic adjs., pertaining to or involving miscegenation; ˌmiscegeˈnationist, ˈmiscegenator, miˈscegenist, one who favours miscegenation; also, one who contracts a union with one of another race; miˈscegeny, miscegenation.
1864[Croly], etc. Miscegenation 7 To miscegenate; i.e. to mingle persons of different races. Ibid. ii. 19 The Griquas, or Griqua Hottentots, are a miscegenated race. Ibid. v. 28 A miscegenetic community. Ibid. vii. 34 The purest miscegen will be brown, with reddish cheeks. 1865Reader 20 May 561/2 (art. Emancipation), There are philogynists as fanatical as any ‘miscegenists’. 1865S. S. Cox Eight Yrs. Congress 354 A very sprightly suffragan of the miscegen stamp. Ibid., The result would be an average miscegen and a superior patriot. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 289 A Miscegenationist, named Williams, was tarred and feathered, and dumped into the river at Grenada, Mississippi. 1880Winchell Preadamites vi. 81 The policy of North American miscigenesis, which has been recommended..as an..expedient for obviating race collisions. 1881Sala Amer. Revis. 316 Two such ‘Miscegenators’ have been hanged by the mob in Virginia. 1898C. F. Adams Imperialism 10 It has saved the Anglo-Saxon stock from being a nation of half-breeds—miscegenates. 1941‘R. West’ Black Lamb I. 527 It was a fusion, lovely but miscegenic, of the Byzantine and the baroque styles. 1935Punch 14 Aug. 176/1 Since miscegeny is not a bad British trouble, Shanghai is a film that is more likely to interest America than ourselves. |