miscegenistn.adj.
/mɪˈsɛdʒᵻnɪst/, U.S. /məˈsɛdʒ(ə)nəst/ A. n.
A person who advocates or practises miscegenation; = miscegenationist n.
ΚΠ
1864 M. D. Conway Testimonies Concerning Slavery ix. 75 Were the theory of the wildest miscegenist adopted tomorrow, the relation between the blacks and whites in respect to marriage would be simply conformed to what it is in England and France to-day.
1865 Reader 20 May 561/2 There are philogynists as fanatical as any ‘miscegenists’.
1996 Evening Standard (Nexis) 11 Jan. 40 Back then, a Negro in a car with a white woman was a potential miscegenist, or worse.
B. adj.
Advocating or favouring miscegenation; = miscegenationist adj. Also: concerned with or relating to marriage between people of different races.
ΚΠ
1867 De Bow's Rev. 494/1 ‘Society at the South is permanently divided!’ Certainly—who wishes it to be otherwise, but a miscegenist Radical or a negro?
1957 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 26 442 The miscegenist prohibition is based not upon ratiocination at all but rather upon deep-seated racial attitudes.
1996 Jrnl. Blacks in Higher Educ. No. 12. 102 Racial discrepancies were explained by subscribing to one of two views: one, the environmentalist..; and two, the miscegenist, which held that separate races were the result of intermarriage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1864