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单词 ethnicism
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ethnicismn.

Brit. /ˈɛθnᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈɛθnəˌsɪzəm/
Forms: 1600s–1700s ethnicisme, 1600s– ethnicism.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: ethnic adj., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < ethnic adj. + -ism suffix, in sense 1a after post-classical Latin ethnicismus heathenism, paganism (1533 or earlier).
1.
a. depreciative. Heathenism, paganism; heathenish superstition; an instance of this. Obsolete.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun]
heathenessec900
heathenshipa1000
heathendomc1000
idolatrya1325
mammetryc1330
spiritual fornicationa1340
whoredomc1350
prepucya1382
miscreancea1393
imagery1395
gentility?a1425
paganismc1425
paganityc1450
prepucec1475
Mahometry1481
superstitiousness1526
uncircumcision1526
whoring1530
idolry1535
paynimhood1543
image-worshipping1544
paganrya1550
idololatry1550
gentilism1561
old religion1567
heathenishness1571
image worship1572
heathenry1577
irreligiousness?1577
idolatrousness1583
uncircumcisedness1583
irreligion1598
ethnicism1600
infidelity1603
superstition1603
heathenism1605
idolism1608
miscreancy1611
misreligion1623
Baalisma1625
iconolatry1624
idolomania1624
idolomany1624
idolizing1637
idol-worship1667
ethnicity1772
symbololatry1828
Baal-worship1834
irreligionism1843
gentiledom1844
triology1894
1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah iv. 77 Tullie, it shall be easier for thee in the day of iudgement, and for thee Plato, & for thee Seneca, then for many who liue not in Ethnicisme or Barbarisme, but in a ciuill nation.
1617 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 3) ix. v. §3 1042 Certaine Brasilians..had set vp a new Sect of Christian Ethnicisme, or Mungrell-Christianity.
1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe xxiii. 226 Feigned relations of a new starres appearance or other like Ethnicismes.
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 111 In darkness of errour and in the shadow of death through Ethnicism.
1714 Acct. Samaritans 20 They jumbled both together, and so made up..such a motley kind of Religion, as deserved no other Name than Ethnicisme.
1794 E. Stiles Hist. Three Judges King Charles I v. 313 Some of the measures they have brought forward, for the insidious abolition of religion, and the re-establishment of ethnicism.
1874 J. W. Watson & M. J. Evans tr. J. J. van Oosterzee Christian Dogmatics I. ii. i. 349 Only modern Ethnicism (heathenism, as distinguished from heathendom) proclaims here, from its fatalistic standpoint, a Gospel of despair.
b. In a neutral sense: the religions of antiquity other than Christianity and Judaism, regarded collectively; the common characteristics of these. Now rare.
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1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. G8 The other was conuerted to Christianity from Ethnicisme, and hath written many excellent Treatises in Greeke.
1717 J. Stokes Compassionate Plea for Infants iii. 55 When they have in Sacred or other History, read of Adult Baptism, they have not consider'd, that such Instances were of Converts from Judaism or Ethnicism.
1849 tr. C. I. Nitzsch Syst. Christian Doctr. Pref. 7 The two great directions of religio-historical development, Ethnicism and Revelation.
1870 B. F. Cocker Christianity & Greek Philos. ii. 85 Christianity..is regarded as ‘the summing and crown of the two great religious systems which reigned by turn in the East and in Greece’—the maturity of Ethnicism and Judaism.
1918 O. M. Norlie Open Bible l. 538 Christianity came..in contact with the religions and philosophies of the peoples of the Roman Empire. These religions might be called Ethnicism.
2. Consciousness of or emphasis on ethnic identity or culture; ethnic self-determination or nationalism; ethnic separation. Also: prejudice on the grounds of ethnic origin.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > emphasis on racial or cultural identity
ethnicism1945
1945 Thought Mar. 79​ As long as ethnic nationalism exists as a powerful sentiment there can only be makeshift solutions, and ethnicism is far from having run its course.
1964 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 24 85 In Malaya..one of the first signs of a conscious ethnicism ignoring local political boundaries was a concern for the nurture of the language as symbol and expression of the group.
1972 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Sept. 68/3 In a fever of ethnicism, Italians, Jews, Orientals, Blacks, Hispanics and others have withdrawn into themselves, causing still unmeasured social damage.
1978 Eng. Jrnl. Dec. 7/2 It is racism and ethnicism in this country that prevents minorities from getting jobs.
1985 C. Mullard Race, Power & Resistance i. 9 The cultural form of racism, ethnicism.
1990 A. Toffler Powershift v. 385 The upsurge of ethnicism in the dominant Great Russian population.
2007 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Jan. 35 Racism, along with religionism, ethnicism and other kinds of xenophobia, remain ingrained in the British psyche.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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