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单词 philistia
释义 phi·lis·tia
\fə̇ˈlistēə\ noun plural
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin Philistaea, ancient country in southwestern Palestine that was the land of the Philistines
: cultural Philistines as a class : the Philistine world
 < the perennial tendency of philistia to suspect what it does not understand — Mary McCarthy >
 < fierce … refusal to compromise with philistia which she shared with writers to whom she was in no other way allied — New Republic >
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