单词 | social-conscious |
释义 | > as lemmassocial-conscious b. Forming (chiefly parasynthetic) adjectives with the sense ‘concerned with social issues’, as social-minded, social-conscious, etc. ΚΠ 1833 C. Cushing Rev. Late Revol. France II. xi. 262 A social minded King and a youthful Queen promised new scenes to the courtier. 1852 R. Chambers Life & Wks Robert Burns III. 260 A social-spirited, impressionable man like Robert Burns. 1939 A. Huxley After Many a Summer ii. v. 229 For these..‘normality’ in sexual behaviour would be quite different from what it was for the more social-minded. 1942 C. Himes Black on Black (1973) 183 His social-conscious protestations of hurt had leapt the bounds of amateur sincerity. 2000 J. Klaiber in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 378/1 At the same time that the Catholic church experienced a new awakening following Vatican II, some Latin American Protestants also turned more ecumenical and social-minded. < as lemmas |
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