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mongrelism|ˈmʌŋgrəlɪz(ə)m| [f. mongrel n. + -ism.] The condition or quality of being mongrel or hybrid.
1598Florio, Bastardume, bastardise, mungrelism. 1831Examiner 274/2 [He] has passed from rank Toryism to the mongrelism of ‘moderate reformer’. 1849D. T. Browne Amer. Poultry Yd. (1855) 66 There is no breed of fowls more disfigured by mongrelism than this. 1871Galton in Proc. Roy. Soc. XIX. 396 The variations to which the breed is liable, and which might at first be thought due to mongrelism. |