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racialist, n. and a.|ˈreɪʃəlɪst|
[f. racial a. + -ist.]
A. n. A partisan of racialism; an advocate of a racial theory.
1917Deb. House of Commons Canada 5870/2 We all become nationalists in the true sense of the word, as distinguished from provincialists and racialists. 1930Observer 22 June 13/4 Some of its characters said things that were calculated to make the blood of headstrong racialists boil. 1937Discovery July 224/2 Curiously enough.., the ‘nigger’ is much more likely to be treated with contempt by the half-educated in England than among the politically-organised racialists of Germany. 1939A. Toynbee Study Hist. IV. 19 We can even drive the racialists out of their one remaining Italian stronghold by finding an alternative explanation for the rise of the Roman Republic. 1940R. Benedict Race: Science & Politics i. 6 The racialists have rewritten history to provide the scion of such a race with a long and glamorous group ancestry. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Mar. 164/3 It is easy today for Britain to see Hertzog as a bitter, anti-British racialist, who deprived the remaining Cape Africans of their vote. 1960Spectator 6 May 650/1 A racialist..lives according to what most people think is a fantasy. 1977M. Walker National Front iv. 85 He [sc. A. K. Chesterton] went on to warn of the perils of racialist extremism, while wholeheartedly agreeing with the racialists' arguments about ‘..mongrelization’.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by racialism.
1946W. S. Knickerbocker 20th Cent. Eng. 81 It would be, however, an error to consider this Nazi literary history simply as racialist. 1952B. Davidson Rep. S. Afr. i. vii. 75 Members even of the highly racialist Electors' Union of Kenya..have expessed to me their horror at the explosive possibilities induced by white policy in South Africa. 1960[see Africanistic s.v. Africanist n. (and a.)]. 1971E. Powell Let. in Observer 14 Mar. 8/6 The adjective ‘racialist’ has gained a strange sort of currency in recent years and seems to wear all sorts of meanings. I have even once or twice heard it applied to myself.
Hence raciaˈlistic a.
1960Guardian 14 Dec. 16/2 The extreme racialistic African leaders. 1969Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 18/4 Coomaraswamy was more than a little influenced by the sort of racialistic sentiment applied to art that has become one of the curses of the 20th century. 1977P. Johnson Enemies of Society xix. 248 The statement is purely racialistic. |