creolismn.
/ˈkriːə(ʊ)lɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈkriˌoʊˌlɪzəm/, /ˈkriəˌlɪzəm/ 1. The fact of being a Creole; Creole descent.
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1788 J. Ramsay Objections Abolition Slave Trade (ed. 2) 49 The farther back the negroe could trace his Creolism, the more he valued himself.
1812 Ann. Reg. 1810 (Otridge ed.) Characters 596/2 They [sc. negroes] feel pride and consequence in being born in a new hemisphere, and conceive that to Creolism is attached a degree of dignity.
1893 Athenæum 7 Oct. 484/1 Though he had been born in Misiones (Paraguay), yet, as the son of a lieutenant-governor..and removed to Spain at an early age, he did not suffer from the disabilities of creolism.
2003 D. Hales Southern Family in White & Black vii. 119 As a child of mixed racial heritage herself..she identified with the ambivalent nature of creolism.
2. A word, phrase, or other linguistic feature characteristic of or peculiar to a creole language.
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1838 E. L. Joseph Warner Arundell I. vi. 83 Please to unlight. [Note] A creolism for ‘alight’.
1853 Men of Time (ed. 2) 211 He speaks French very correctly, and without any mixture of Creolisms.
1919 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 9 Sept. 14/2 I..will do my best, but, to use a creolism: ‘One finger can't ketch insect.’
1976 Amer. Speech 51 190 The famous ‘invariant’ or ‘habitual’ be..is now widely regarded in this country as an Afro-American creolism, even though it has long been familiar to ethnocentric scholars in Ireland.
2000 P. Manuel East Indian Music in W. Indies v. 129 Trinidadian and Guyanese musicians also use the term ‘break tāl’... This usage appears to be a creolism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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