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ethˈnicity
[f. as prec. + -ity.]
†1. Heathendom, heathen superstition. Obs. rare.
1772Nugent tr. Hist. Friar Gerund I. 332 From the curling spume of the celebrated Egean waves fabulous ethnicity feigned Venus their idolatress conceived.
2. Ethnic character or peculiarity.
1953D. Riesman in Amer. Scholar XXIII. i. 15 The groups who, by reason of rural or small-town location, ethnicity, or other parochialism, feel threatened by the better educated upper-middle-class people. 1964P. Worsley in I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 384 Existing barriers of ethnicity imported into office could thus be removed. 1970Oxf. Univ. Gaz. C. Suppl. vi. 14 In Hilary Term Dr. Leslie Palmier..gave a series of lectures entitled ‘Ethnicity in Indonesia’. |