单词 | reconstructionism |
释义 | Reconstructionismn. 1. U.S. History. The policy or principles of Reconstruction (reconstruction n. 1c). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > principles or policies federalism1787 state rights1787 colonizationism1831 hunkerism1845 Reconstructionism1881 Little Americanism1898 Point Four1949 fairness doctrine1952 new frontier1961 Great Society1964 eleventh commandment1966 Nixon Doctrine1969 1881 B. F. Riley Hist. Conecuh County, Alabama xxiii. 189 (heading) Dark sway of Reconstructionism—Social chaos—Demoralization. 1887 J. R. Howard in H. W. Beecher Patriotic Addr. v. 122 The whites had been almost solidly ‘Democratic’, simply because the negroes and those who represented Reconstructionism were solidly ‘Republican’. 1956 Times 19 Mar. 8/1 The return of ‘reconstructionism’ and rule by ‘carpet-baggers’ such as was experienced in the South after the Civil War. 2003 Sunday Tribune (Ireland) (Nexis) 19 Jan. 8 [He] represents [Jesse James]..as an ‘expropriator’, stealing from popular targets and thus making evil Yankee reconstructionism a notch or two more difficult. 2. Reconstructionist Judaism. Cf. reconstructionist adj. 2. ΚΠ 1936 M. M. Kaplan Jewish Reconstructionist Papers Pref. p. vi Reconstructionism should become a quality of existing institutions and movements rather than another addition to their quantity. 1975 C. S. Liebman in J. Neusner Understanding Amer. Judaism xxiv. 242 American Jews no doubt are more ethnic, or peoplehood-oriented, than religion-oriented. But only Reconstructionism makes a virtue of this. 2004 Miami Herald (Nexis) 14 Nov. (Bk. Review section) 2 Today, introduced by Reconstructionism, it is common practice for girls also to follow the same procedure to become bat mitzvah. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1881 |
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