| 单词 | manifest destiny |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmanifest destiny manifest destiny n. (also with capital initials) originally U.S. (now historical) the doctrine or belief that the expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable; this (expected) expansion itself; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > race theory > belief in white supremacy Anglo-Saxonism1844 manifest destiny1845 Saxonism1884 Nordicism1925 white chauvinism1928 white racism1943 1845 J. O'Sullivan in U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. July–Aug. 5 Our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. 1856 Porter's Spirit of Times 13 Dec. 235/2 He was a ‘manifest destiny’ man. 1858 Economist 6 Feb. 139/2 What reasons can be shown for the manifest destiny to whip Africans which do not apply with equal force to prove the manifest destiny to subdue half-caste Spaniards into conformity with their will? 1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) Introd. p. ix The incarnation of ‘Manifest Destiny’, in other words, of national recklessness as to right or wrong. 1927 J. W. Pratt in Amer. Hist. Rev. 32 795 One can hardly read a work on the history of the United States in the two decades before the Civil War without meeting the phrase ‘manifest destiny’, widely used as a convenient statement of the philosophy of territorial expansion in that period. 1937 J. Marquand Thank you, Mr. Moto v. 31 It had always seemed to me a piece of manifest destiny..that the Japanese Empire should control China, and I told Best as much. 1959 Listener 18 June 1048/2 The long and stern struggle by which Canada had maintained its separateness against American ‘Manifest Destiny’. 1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Apr. 476/2 As historians come to appreciate the strength of ‘survivalist’ Catholicism, so Protestantism seems to be less..a pre-ordained and natural consummation, England's manifest destiny. 1991 Classic CD Dec. 5/1 An inexhaustible exploration of fugal procedures and permutations greatly ranging in texture and harmony and bursting to fulfil the manifest destiny of its extraordinary subject. < as lemmas |
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