单词 | anti-semitic |
释义 | anti-Semiticadj. Characterized by prejudice, hostility, or discrimination towards Jewish people on religious, cultural, or ethnic grounds; anti-Jewish.Quot. 1851 appears to show an isolated use with uncertain significance, and long precedes the continental European movement of the 1870s and later (compare etymology note at anti-Semitism n.). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [adjective] > racist > anti-Semitic anti-Semitic1851 anti-Semite1867 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. i. 6 It was not as a ghastly phantasm, choked in Thirty-nine-article controversies, or miserable Semitic, Anti-Semitic street-riots..that this man appeared in life. 1879 N.Y. Times 15 Dec. 2/3 In the month of September last, a few Berliners..got up a club—the ‘Anti-Semitic’—for the purpose of provoking an agitation against the Jews. 1881 Athenæum 3 Sept. 305/2 Anti-Semitic literature is very prosperous in Germany. 1941 A. M. Lindbergh Let. 17 Sept. in War within & Without (1980) 227 It is bitter for me to see him unctuously condemned from the side lines by politicians who I know are anti-Semitic but who feel it is impolite to say so... I have never heard him say anything derogatory about a Jew as such. 1994 White Supremacist Activity in Montana (Montana Advisory Comm. to U.S. Commission on Human Rights) ix. 33/2 Table 6 shows that documented anti-Semitic incidents throughout the United States have increased 70 percent in the last 10 years. 2010 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 9 Dec. a6/4 How should our community respond to the recent acts of anti-Semitic vandalism? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1851 |
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