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单词 miscegenation
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miscegenationn.

Brit. /ˌmɪsᵻdʒᵻˈneɪʃn/, /mᵻˌsɛdʒᵻˈneɪʃən/, U.S. /məˌsɛdʒəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌmɪsədʒəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin miscēre , genus , -ation suffix.
Etymology: Irregularly < classical Latin miscēre to mix (see mixed adj.2) + genus race (see genus n.) + -ation suffix. Coined by David Goodman Croly and George Wakeman in an anonymously published hoax pamphlet circulated in 1863, which implied that the American Republican party favoured mixed-race relationships (see quot. 1863 at sense 1). Compare Portuguese miscigenação (c1960).
Originally U.S.
1. Mixing of or reproduction between different racial or ethnic groups, or between individuals belonging to different racial or ethnic groups; esp. sexual relationships and reproduction between white and non-white people; marriage or cohabitation by members of different ethnic groups. Also: an instance of this, and in extended use. Cf. amalgamation n. 3.The term is used esp. by people who believe in concepts of racial superiority or racial purity and therefore object to interracial relationships; with quot. 1863 cf. discussion in etymology.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun]
mongrelism1598
mixture1634
half-breed1775
half-caste1798
mixed blood1817
Eurasianism1833
mongrelity1859
mulism1861
miscegenation1863
miscegenesis1880
miscegeny1887
métissage1891
half-castism1896
1863 Rec. of Copyrights (U.S. District Court, N.Y. Southern District) 29 Dec. 313 Miscegenation: The theory of the blending of the races applied to the American White Man and Negro.
1864 D. G. Croly et al. Miscegenation p. i The word is spoken at last. It is Miscegenation—the blending of the various races of men.
1864 Congress. Globe 17 Feb. 709/3 I do not believe that the doctrine of miscegenation.., now strenuously urged by the abolition leaders, will save the negro.
1864 J. A. Campbell Let. 26 July in War of Rebellion (U.S. War Dept.) (1899) 2nd Ser. VII. 199 The [Yankee] officer can be retained. No objection is known to his being placed with his [Negro] Privates. He cannot complain of miscegenation.
1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. 44 By this process of miscegenation, the Arabs are already rapidly losing their rich colour.
1894 New Eng. Mag. Feb. 710/2 The descendants of these miscegenations have intermarried through generations, with the natural effect of producing a heterogeneous population.
1902 Pilot 27 Dec. 540/2 The danger of ‘miscegenation’..ought to warn us against introducing Oriental settlers into South Africa.
1935 C. Zirkle Beginnings of Plant Hybridization i. 42 The myths that have come down to us from the earliest civilizations contain many accounts of miscegenation between gods and mortals.
1955 Amer. Midland Naturalist 53 409 The warmth of the slough water..may also be a factor conductive [read conducive] to miscegenation between the squawfish and the shiner.
1991 Transpacific July 41/2 Because many states still had miscegenation laws preventing interracial marriage, mixed couples couldn't always travel freely.
2011 J. Cartwright Other People's Money (2012) xvi. 157 They have been happy to be confirmed in the belief that London is a sink of iniquity, double-dealing and miscegenation.
2. figurative.
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1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 64 It is an..effort to engraft Christian ideas upon the heathen stock of Grecian mythology... In..contrast with this ostentatious group of Christian and pagan miscegenation is [etc.].
1884 J. Hawthorne N. Hawthorne & Wife II. 178 The lower regions of palaces come to strange uses in Rome;..a work-shop may be established in one of the apartments; and similar miscegenations.
1927 Amer. Mercury Nov. 371/2 The Brandy cocktail was an attempt to bring about the miscegenation of brandy and gum syrup.
1943 Philos. Sci. 10 91 The proposed miscegenation would give a product (of the given positive class and the null class), and this would be nothing.
2000 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 78/1 The miscegenation created by its borrowings in pursuit of variety (flamenco! Broadway jazz!).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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