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Negrophil|ˈniːgrəʊfɪl|
Also -phile.
[f. Negro + -phil or a. F. négrophile.]
A friend of the Negroes; one who favours the advancement of Negro interests or rights.
1803Edin. Rev. III. 82 Colonists who have been ruined by the revolution of the ‘negrophiles’. 1858Macaulay in Trevelyan Life (1883) I. 24 note, The nigger driver and the negrophile are two odious things to me. 1868W. R. Greg Lit. & Soc. Judgm. 447 An enthusiastic abolitionist and negrophile. 1889Sat. Rev. 18 May 620/1 Like the work of all negrophils, it is sometimes wanting in criticism. 1934R. Campbell Broken Record iii. 58 Pringle obtained and asserted the freedom of the Press... He had a negrophile bias and misrepresented much. 1936H. Preece in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 36/2 Our indictments of the professional Negrophiles need not even be so personal. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Jan. 21/1 Many of the first explorers had an objectivity and sympathy with the indigenous people which would startle a modern negrophile. |