单词 | zionist |
释义 | Zionistn.adj. A. n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Zionite > [noun] Zionite1596 Zionista1649 a1649 G. Abbott Brief Notes Psalms (1651) lxxxvii. 396 Setting forth the glorious priviledges of Sion proph[e]sied of old, but not yet fulfilled, saving in their shadows, which shortly would be accomplished in substance, when all nations should be ambitious to be Sionists, for the Church it selfe should bear that name. 1863 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 19 Dec. 6/3 Independents, Baptists, Ranters, Unitarians, Methodists, Milleniumists, Southcotists, Zionists, and all the other sections into which Christianity is split up can keep open their respective tabernacles without state aid. 2. Originally: an advocate or supporter of a movement among Jewish people for the re-establishment of a Jewish nation in Palestine. Later: an advocate or supporter of the development and protection of the state of Israel. Cf. Zionism n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [noun] > Jewish > person Zionist1891 territorialist1905 1891 Los Angeles Times 30 May 1 At the meeting of zionists the speakers declared that facts were known which justified the action of the European governments. 1900 Chicago Tribune 7 Jan. 34/4 We Zionists labor to turn their eyes to the east, to the land of their national birth..where anti-Semitism can be changed into pro-Semitism. 1971 I. Metzker & D. L. Levy tr. Bintel Brief 131 My biography is similar to those of so many other Jewish people from Lithuania: to kheyder at the age of five, had a good head for learning, was religious, then became an unbeliever and later a Zionist. 2015 Commentary Nov. 35/1 Naftali Bennett's Jewish Home Party is explicitly advocating a closer alliance between religious and secular Zionists. 3. A member of any of a group of independent churches in southern Africa which practise a form of Christianity similar to that of Pentecostal churches but incorporating elements of African traditional worship and belief. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Zionism > [noun] > person Zionist1948 1948 B. G. M. Sundkler Bantu Prophets S. Afr. ii. 55 Theologically the Zionists are now a syncretistic Bantu movement with healing, speaking with tongues, purification rites, and taboos as the main expressions of their faith. 1977 Time 27 June 18/3 Some aspects of the old Soweto still exist: the neatly kept gardens of middle-class black homes;..the Zionists, an Africanized Christian sect, famous for their daylong religious dances that begin at prayer services in backyard tents on Saturday nights. 2014 J. Cabrita Text & Authority in S. Afr. Nazaretha Church iii. 98 An indication of the external similarity of Isaiah's new church with the Zionist movement is the fact that, on more than one occasion, the government mistook Nazaretha believers for Zionists. B. adj. Of or relating to Zionism (Zionism n. 1); designating a Zionist (sense A. 2). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [adjective] > specific pan-Slavic1848 pan-Slavistic1848 pan-Slavonic1848 Panhellenist1850 pan-Arab1881 pan-Arabic1881 pan-Africander1884 Zionistic1894 Zionist1896 pan-Germanistic1903 Africanistic1904 Arab nationalist1913 pan-Germanist1916 Ottomanizing1917 Yiddishist1920 pan-Arabist1956 Arabist1957 pan-Africanist1957 Africanist1958 society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Zionism > [adjective] Zionist1896 1896 Jewish Chron. 17 Jan. 12/2 The emigration and Zionist societies. 1923 Jewish Chron. 19 Jan. 5/1 It will be seen from this how far right the Zionist leaders, Dr. Weizmann and Mr. Sokolow in particular, were in the estimate they put upon that Statement. 1967 C. Potok Chosen xiii. 213 He had become involved in Zionist activities and was always attending meetings where he spoke about the importance of Palestine as a Jewish homeland. 2018 Western Mail (Cardiff) (National ed.) (Nexis) 22 Nov. Although the Zionist movement was founded in the 19th century, the state of Israel was born following the Holocaust. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1649 |
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