mongrelismn.
/ˈmʌŋɡr(ə)lɪz(ə)m/, /ˈmɒŋɡrəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈmɑŋɡrəˌlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈməŋɡrəˌlɪz(ə)m/ The condition or quality of being mongrel or hybrid; †hybridization, cross-breeding, reproduction between different groups or populations (obsolete). Also: an instance of this.
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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
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > temporizing or trimming
time servicea1555
temporizing1590
time-serving1608
temporizement1647
trimming1696
time-servingness1742
temporization1761
tide-serving1819
mongrelism1831
mugwumpism1886
the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > stock or breed > cross-breed > condition of being
mongrelism1850
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Bastardise, mungrelism.
1784 E. Allen Reason xi. §2. 375 Had all the nations and tribes of the world,..descended from the same progenitors, mongrelism could never have taken place among them.
1831 Examiner 274/2 [He] has passed from rank Toryism to the mongrelism of ‘moderate reformer’.
1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 66 There is no breed of fowls more disfigured by mongrelism than this.
1871 F. Galton in Proc. Royal Soc. 19 396 The variations to which the breed is liable, and which might at first be thought due to mongrelism.
1920 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 25 702 Mongrelism is as much to be reckoned with as a part of the past as it is recognized as a truth relating to the future.
1977 Washington Post 2 June a18 Another inane plan to extend the Capitol's West Front..is in the best tradition of aesthetic mongrelism under which an earlier leadership group architecturally despoiled our nation's most venerated site.
1990 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 May 465/3 He has a good ear for the mongrelisms of reformed Communist jargon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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