单词 | nativist |
释义 | nativistn.adj. A. n. 1. U.S. Politics. A person who favours or advocates a policy of nativism; spec. a member of the Native American party (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [noun] > indigenization > advocate of nativist1844 1844 St. Louis Reveille 16 Nov. 2/2 The Whig party of New York..has united its fortunes with that of the nativists. 1855 Chicago Weekly Times 29 Mar. 3/4 ‘“Pure Americanism!” you call this Know nothing chicken of yours!’ ‘We do,’ replied the nativist. 1885 J. J. Lalor & A. B. Mason tr. H. Von Holst Constit. & Polit. Hist. U.S. V. ix. 436 Fillmore..was chosen by the Nativists of Philadelphia as their standard-bearer. 1924 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 11 301 The old Know-nothing party had its strength in the East and the South because it was safer to be a nativist there than in the West. 1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends ii. vii. 215 It was one thing to dominate a city of immigrants like Boston. The reaches of the state were populated by conservative nativists, weren't they? 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 416/1 Catholic French Creoles of New Orleans embraced nativists as allies against the Irish newcomers. 2. a. Philosophy. A person who holds the belief that some knowledge and ideas are innate, rather than acquired by learning. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > idealism > [noun] > innatism or apriorism > adherent of nativist1878 1878 Mind 3 194 It remains, therefore, a question how the Nativists are to account for the reality of visual space. 1881 Nation (N.Y.) 32 191 The Intellectualists and the Sensationalists in vision, or, as Helmholtz prefers to call them, the Empiricists and the Nativists. 1906 Philos. Rev. 15 551 In the first essay the author declares himself a nativist as far as the individual is concerned, genetic processes being acknowledged and insisted on as having been operative in the race. 1991 Oxf. Art Jrnl. 14 103/1 He predicates his discussion on the contrast between ‘empiricists’ and ‘nativists’. b. Psychology and Linguistics. A person who holds the belief that certain capacities or abilities (esp. those of sense perception or language) are innate, rather than acquired by learning. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > [noun] > origin of language > theories of > adherent of pooh-pooher1841 anomalist1854 nativist1924 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > [noun] > doctrine of innate perception > adherent of nativist1924 1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind iii. §5. 76 To the empiricist the observed development [of fixation] is regarded as a process of learning; while the nativist [Ger. Nativismus] regards it as a process of maturation. 1930 W. F. Leopold in J. T. Hatfield et al. Curme Vol. Ling. Stud. 106 It might be possible to find..a tie of union even between views as contrasting as those of Wundt and Marty, of nativists and teleologists, in the philosophy of language. 1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 85 18 The argument of nativists that the phenomenal experience is not found to be as fluid or flexible as would be expected under an empirical approach. 1991 Appl. Linguistics 12 316 The absence of top-down ‘rule-structure’ in cerebellar, PDP architectures has kept ‘nativists’ and ‘connectionists’ alike from seeing how both learning and rule-governedness can be unified in a cerebral model of cognition. B. adj. 1. Chiefly U.S. Politics. Of or relating to nativism or nativists; spec. of or relating to the Native American party (now historical). ΚΠ 1848 Campaign (Washington, D.C.) 7 June 23/1 The nativist papers..indulged in remarks of the most vulgar and gross character in relation to Gen. Cass. 1864 T. L. Nichols 40 Years Amer. Life II. 78 The nativist party, with its secret organization. 1894 Forum July 534 [The South] was full of nativist feeling in its best form. 1950 Jrnl. Philos. 47 444 He does not even mention such nativist phenomena as the America-Firsters and the Klan. 1986 New Yorker 26 May 95/2 This particular line of attack stems..from the nativist streak in our politics—a streak that has been deepened by the rising imbalance of our trade with foreign nations. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 76/1 Nativist political parties such as the Know-Nothings sprang up on antiforeign platforms. 2011 Notes & Queries Sept. 444/2 A Shakespeare whose empathetic immersion in human diversity..made him a champion of tolerationist perspectives: the type of person praised by George Abbott in 1600, defending Protestant immigrants against nativist bigotry. 2. a. Philosophy. Of or relating to nativism (nativism n. 2a). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > idealism > [adjective] > relating to innatism or apriorism transcendental1835 a priori1841 aprioristic1874 nativistic1876 nativist1901 1901 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 475/2 The Intuitive or Nativist theory, according to which space is an innate idea. 1926 Philos. Rev. 35 245 Have we progressed very far beyond the nativist theory when we endow sensations with an irreducible ‘voluminousness’? 1976 Jrnl. Philos. 73 26 In Essay VI of Reid's Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Reid sets out the following basic nativist claims. b. Psychology and Linguistics. Of or relating to the theory of nativism (nativism n. 2b) or nativists. ΚΠ 1974 Jrnl. Philos. 71 156 The nativist response typically has been to deny that what the animal communicates with is really a language. 1989 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 34 468 Up to now, of course, it has been largely linked to strictly nativist approaches to human cognition. 1991 Appl. Linguistics 12 299 In linguistics, nativist theories proposed that there exists an innate software program for booting the grammatical operating system of the human computer. 3. Cultural Anthropology. Of or relating to nativism (nativism n. 1b); subscribing to nativism. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [adjective] > process > specific accultural1890 acculturative1915 acculturational1937 nativistic1937 schismogenic1949 massified1960 nativist1960 1960 J. C. Messenger (title) Reinterpretations of Christian and indigenous belief in a Nigerian nativist church. 1984 New Yorker 29 Oct. 132/3 All these things..have given rise to a sort of nativist movement. 1985 Eng. Today Apr. 8/3 The nativist approach was increasingly dismissed and disdained, as various countries developed English ‘for national unity, for international communication, as a window on world events’. 1993 Times 23 Sept. 3/8 The nativist spirit which animated the [Chinese] communist revolution from its earliest years in this century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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