单词 | colonialism |
释义 | colonialismn. 1. The principle, policy, or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country and occupying it with settlers; the principle, policy, or practice of maintaining colonies. Also occasionally: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > direct rule, devolution, or trusteeship > [noun] > colonial system colonialism1791 postcolonialism1955 society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [noun] > colonialism colonialism1791 colonialization1874 coloniality1988 1791 J. Bentham Let. 6 May in Corr. (1981) IV. 279 As a scheme for colonialism with a view to national wealth by the increase of trade, it [sc. Botany Bay] is surely of all that was or could be devised the most hopeless. 1897 Northern Daily Mail 17 Sept. 3/1 The shackles of colonialism had been thrown off, and Canada was now free and a nation. 1952 Economist 19 July 172/2 It is on that basis that they explain American support..of France in North Africa—to them a straight case of colonialism. 1999 S. L. Kasfir Contemp. Afr. Art Introd. 14 While a tidy formulation, it ignores the problem that there have been very different colonialisms, both globally and within Africa itself. 2019 S. Mehta This Land is our Land vi. 85 In 1960, when states were just beginning to emerge from colonialism, citizens of the world's richest country were 33 times wealthier than people in the poorest country. 2. a. A word or phrase characteristic of a colony or colonies. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > regional dialects > word or phrase of rusticity1675 rusticism1749 provincialism1770 villagism1772 localism1823 nationalism1823 colonialism1842 ruralism1854 1842 Sydney Morning Herald 30 Aug. To use a vulgar but significant colonialism, he now and then ‘bounced’ the Council. 1887 H. W. Daly Digging, Squatting, & Pioneering Life S. Austral. 239 To use a colonialism, ‘the place was going ahead’. 1956 Times 15 June 11/4 It is not so long since ‘Gosh!’—like ‘Gee whiz’, ‘I'll be darned!’ and other crude colonialisms—was a stock in trade of that ridiculous boor, the stage-American. 1963 N. Taylor 1001 Questions answered about Flowers v. 152 What is puke-weed? A not very elegant colonialism for Indian tobacco. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > of specific society or group dharma1785 dhamma1837 Arthurianism1854 colonialism1855 zadruga1887 mat1905 outbackery1961 1855 Age (Melbourne) 5 May 5/1 This, too, might be defended as ‘quite colonial’; but the inference which we should draw from this colonialism is the reverse of what has been suggested by a contemporary. 1866 Morning Post 15 Feb. 6/2 Another peculiar colonialism is the substitution of the words notes for pounds when speaking of money. 3. The outlook, attitude, or culture considered typical of colonialists; esp. the belief in the superiority of one's own country and its right to colonize other nations. ΚΠ 1856 Age (Melbourne) 6 Aug. 2/3 The Doctor is himself the personification of the aristocratic element of Old Colonialism. 1932 W. Lewis Filibuster in Barbary in C. J. Fox Journey into Barbary (1983) 31 There was something frantic and deliberate in the cacophonous attack, taken in conjunction with the stolidity of the ship's guests—the decorous colonialism of them. 2020 @Black_Kettle 21 June in twitter.com (accessed 10 Sept. 2021) Churchill..is lionised in a simplistic, black and white way for his role in WWII and his colonialism and racism quietly ignored. 4. The outlook, attitude, or culture associated with or attributed to living in a colony; esp. a feeling of subjugation or inferiority to the outlook, attitude, or culture of the colonizing country. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > colony > colonial quality colonialism1883 colonialness1886 1883 American 6 46 He broke through the narrow trammels of colonialism himself; but the colonial spirit hung just as heavily upon the feeble literature about him. 1928 Scotsman 14 Mar. 12/2 The American Revolution sharply stimulated the desire for cultural independence, yet it had to overcome a natural colonialism of mind that long survived. 1970 J. P. Dyson José Santos Chocano iv. 94 Intellectual independence was even more difficult to attain, and long years of struggle were needed to shake off colonialism of mind and spirit. 2019 J. Mead in ‘O. Keese’ Broad Arrow Introd. p. liv Despite having being ‘educated in England from her twelfth year’—intended to militate against her colonialism—her conversation is comically domestic, she is full of superior airs and her horizons are unimaginatively fixed on matrimony. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1791 |
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