单词 | nineteenth-centuryism |
释义 | nineteenth-centuryismn. The distinctive spirit, character, or outlook of the 19th century; a feature or trait suggestive of the 19th century. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > specific centuries, decades, or years > spirit of the nineteenth century nineteenth-centuryism1846 1846 Ld. Tennyson Let. 20 Dec. (1982) I. 270 They seem to me to be very clever and full of a noble 19th century-ism (if you will admit such a word). 1891 ‘L. Malet’ Wages of Sin II. v. iii. 214 There is another of your perverted nineteenth-centuryisms! 1959 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 53 376 What may be involved here is something to which, in another context, this writer has given the label of the ‘Fallacy of Nineteenth-Centuryism’. 1971 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 37 96 He also avoids the flaw of what might be called nineteenth-centuryism, whereby writers see the eighteenth-century Indian past through the experiences of a later time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846 |
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