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单词 africanism
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Africanismn.

Brit. /ˈafrᵻkənɪz(ə)m/, /ˈafrᵻkn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈæfrəkəˌnɪz(ə)m/
Forms: see African n. and adj. and -ism suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: African adj., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < African adj. + -ism suffix. With sense 2 compare earlier pan-Africanism n.
1.
a. A word, phrase, or other use of language characteristic of, peculiar to, or originating from Africa or Africans.In early use esp. with reference to the writings of Christian Fathers and others associated with North Africa.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > [noun] > African idiom
Africanism1641
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > African English or idiom of
Africanism1641
African English1834
South Africanism1878
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 38 He that cannot understand the sober..stile of the Scriptures, will be ten times more puzzl'd with the knotty Africanisms..of the Fathers.
1657 H. Stubbe Clamor 43 There were other scattered dialects, mixtures of the Tuscan and Oscan, the Greek,..Africanismes, Hispanismes.
1719 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ VI. xiv. iv. 503 There are so many Africanisms, or Idioms of the African Tongue.
1851 R. C. Trench Expos. Serm. on Mount (ed. 2) Introd. ii. 27 The harsh Africanisms of Tertullian and Arnobius.
1884 G. W. Cable Creoles of Louisiana xxxiii. 260 He [sc. the rich Creole] dropped..the Africanisms of his black nurse.
1948 L. D. Turner in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. Apr. 74 It is not true..that..any Africanisms which might previously have been observed in their speech soon disappeared.
1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. iii. 121 Within the Negro community, the use of Africanisms has been demonstrably larger in the past.
1991 Eng. World-wide 12 238 Dialectologists claim this feature to be a nonstandard Briticism rather than an Africanism or innovation.
b. A quality, custom, or trait peculiar to or characteristic of Africans; typically African character or behaviour.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > [noun] > quality or character
Africanism1759
Africanness1889
Africanity1962
Afrocentricity1971
Afrocentrism1972
1759 Let. from Duchess of M—r—gh, in the Shades 67 The old manly British eloquence..degenerated into a kind of Africanism, with all its characters of heat, impetuosity, bounce, turgidity, amplification, and emptiness.
1836 New Monthly Mag. 47 152 I have spent some days in a town where every thing is pure Africanism.
1882 W. Smith & H. Wace Dict. Christian Biogr. (1887) IV. 139/2 The principles which he [sc. Origen] affirmed..are fitted to correct the Africanism which, since the time of Augustine, has dominated Western theology.
1908 Times 14 Dec. 10/1 After they [sc. the Haitians] secured their independence a recrudescence of Africanism took place, which all the efforts of the French priests have been unable to eradicate.
1989 P. van der Merwe Origins Pop. Style (1992) ix. 77 Another Africanism was the chanted sermon, which even today is strikingly similar to some African styles of praise-singing, as well as actual African sermons.
1995 P. Manuel in P. Manuel et al. Caribbean Currents i. 6 On the whole, the sorts of Africanisms evident in most Caribbean music consist more of general principles than specific elements.
2. In South Africa: the belief that black African values should predominate in Africa and that black Africans should achieve political control without assistance from white people. Also more widely, with reference to other communities. Cf. pan-Africanism n.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [noun] > African
pan-Africanism1904
Africanism1944
1944 Manifesto (ANC Youth League) in N. Mandela Struggle is my Life (1978) ii. i. 11 Africanism must be promoted i.e. Africans must struggle for development, progress and national liberation.
1951 Jet 15 Nov. 38 The new Africanism looks beyond the white man to a destiny which is African only.
1957 W. M. Hailey Afr. Surv. (rev. ed.) v. 251 It seems advisable on this occasion to give prominence to the use of the term ‘Africanism’ rather than ‘nationalism’.
1959 Cape Times 14 Apr. 8/6 Africanism can be accepted as a solution in one sense, viz., that Africa in future must belong to the Africans, that is to those peoples who have chosen Africa as their home.
1986 P. Maylam Hist. of Afr. People 184 Africanism in the 1940s found its main institutional expression in the ANC's Youth League.
1989 M. Hudson Our Grandmothers' Drums (1990) vi. 106 He was forever getting up to make speeches on Rastafarianism and ‘Africanism’, designed to provoke and amuse his pious Muslim companions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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