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occiˈdentalism [f. prec. + -ism.] Occidental quality, style, character, or spirit; the customs, institutions, characteristics, ways of thinking, etc. of Western nations.
1839Blackw. Mag. XLVI. 105 The Sultan Mahmoud and his Turkish subjects..have no taste for..the occidentalism, the journalism, the budgetism, the parliamentaryism of the 19th Century. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) IX. xiv. v. 204 There is a..confusion of uncongenial elements, of Orientalism and Occidentalism, in the language [ecclesiastical Latin]. 1890Athenæum 15 Feb. 206/2 The curious transition from Orientalism to Occidentalism, of which contemporary Japan is the theatre. |