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单词 subhumanity
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subhumanityn.

Brit. /ˌsʌbhjʊˈmanᵻti/, U.S. /ˈˌsəb(h)juˈmænədi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sub- prefix, humanity n.
Etymology: < sub- prefix + humanity n., after subhuman adj.
1. The quality, state, or fact of being subhuman; subhuman attributes, faculties, or characteristics collectively.
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1850 New Monthly Mag. July 388 The Caliban of Lablache is a malicious, unwieldy lump of sub-humanity.
1909 G. B. Shaw in Nation 28 Aug. 787/2 Mr. Chesterton..finally excogitates, as a proof of my superhumanity or sub-humanity, exactly the reason that would have been given by one of Wellington's private soldiers.
1966 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept ii. 50 As soon as you make allowances..you are opening the floodgate for mediocrity and..are submerged under a tide of subhumanity.
2005 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 July 40/1 Montesquieu considered various justifications for slavery, including the alleged subhumanity of blacks.
2. Subhumans collectively; a group of these.
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1886 Manford's Mag. Jan. 53/1 [The skull was] quite a fit link wherewith to connect that incipient or sub-humanity with the race proper.
1894 W. Raleigh Eng. Novel vi.154 Pamela's virtue is rewarded by the success of her scheme to marry the man who has heaped on her every indignity that subhumanity could suggest.
1939 J. Cary Mister Johnson 157 They have become a new kind of creature, a sort of subhumanity which can smile and eat and live at a level of corruption and misery which would kill a real human being.
1989 B. Johnston Text & Supertext Ibsen's Drama 125 A new subhumanity, without spiritual direction, becomes deaf to all exhortation or prayer.
2001 D. Ko in S. Pierce & A. Rao Discipline & Other Body 221 Before they could be liberated and saved,..Chinese women had to be denigrated as temptresses and slaves, a subhumanity that was wasted and wasteful.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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