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单词 orwellism
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Orwellismn.

Brit. /ˈɔːwɛlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈɔrwəˌlɪz(ə)m/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Orwell , -ism suffix.
Etymology: < the name of George Orwell (see Orwellian adj. and n.) + -ism suffix.
Something characteristic or reminiscent of the totalitarian social and political organization portrayed in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four (1949); spec. an ambiguous, euphemistic, or misleadingly used word or phrase used in official pronouncements, political propaganda, etc. Cf. Newspeak n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > ideas, etc., characteristic of specific writer
Marlowism1593
Rabelaism1803
Johnsonianism1807
Johnsonism1807
Boswellism1825
Swiftianism1826
Walter Scottism1835
Carlylism1841
Voltairism1841
Macaulayism1846
Voltairianism1848
Zolaism1882
Rabelaisianism1886
Brontëism1887
Arnoldism1892
Kiplingism1898
Shavianism1905
Menckenism1922
Sitwellism1922
Pirandellism1925
Shavianismus1927
Proustery1928
Wodehousian1931
Waughism1934
Snovianism1966
Orwellianism1967
Pinterism1967
Orwellism1970
Pinterishness1970
1970 Guardian 30 Nov. 11/2 His election night insistence that the blood on his face was nothing less than the blush of victory can now be seen as a triumph of public relations.., an interesting example of the progress of Orwellism in national politics.
1987 Jrnl. Palestine Stud. 16 33 Meanwhile, U.S. elites underwent a magical conversion; they became profoundly concerned..with human rights and ‘democracy’ (another Orwellism, referring to guaranteed rule by the military and business-based elements linked to U.S. corporations) in Nicaragua and Iran.
1988 N. Chomsky Propaganda Systems in ‘W. Tinasky’ Lett. (1996) iii. 195/1 What the public relations industry calls the ‘engineering of consent’, another Orwellism meaning ‘thought control’.
2001 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 18 Mar. 7 Agamemnon's insistence that the conflict over Helen's presence in Troy will be a ‘rescue operation’, not a war, is an Orwellism which would befit the phrase coiners of ‘friendly fire’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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