单词 | ethnicism |
释义 | ethnicismn. 1. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1600 |
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