单词 | ethiopianism |
释义 | Ethiopianismn.ΚΠ 1775 W. Mason Let. 3 Mar. in H. Walpole Lett. (1857) VI. 193 There may come a time..when I may wash my Ethiopianism white. 2. Originally and chiefly U.S. The fact or practice of performing as a blackface minstrel; performance or entertainment of this type. Cf. Ethiopian n. 1d. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1850 Theatr. Jrnl. 11 July 222/2 He is a genuine grit negro, from the far-west, and not one of those domestic manufactured piebald abortions of Ethiopianism. 1876 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 17 Nov. 8/5 (advt.) Commencing Monday Eve, Nov. 13, the Last Week of the Minstrels. A farewell to Ethiopianism. 1891 Boston Daily Globe 28 Feb. 2/3 George Wilson's minstrel band is to illustrate modern Ethiopianism at the Grand Opera House today for the last times. 2007 B. Carlin Birth of Banjo ii. 14 With the same roots as the American ‘stage Negro’, British ‘Ethiopianism’ followed much the same history as its American counterpart. 3. South African. The religious and political principles of the Ethiopian Church (see Ethiopian adj. 4); the Ethiopian movement. ΚΠ 1900 Missionary Rev. of World July 972/1 It is ‘Ethiopianism’ which threatens us, brought hither by our Basuto evangelists. 1906 Daily Chron. 13 Feb. 5/4 The rising in Natal is now officially declared..to be the result of the teaching of Ethiopianism, namely ‘South Africa for the Black races’. 1910 J. Buchan Prester John vii. 131 It is what they call ‘Ethiopianism’, and American negroes are the chief apostles. 1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Mar. 252/4 So-called Ethiopianism appears to have been started in South Africa by various disgruntled native ministers of the Gospel. 1961 Listener 30 Nov. 918/1 The term ‘Ethiopianism’, then, is properly applied to early religio-political manifestations of African nationalism in South Africa..from the eighteen-nineties to about the nineteen-twenties. 1999 K. A. Appiah & H. L. Gates Africana 30/3 McGuire's dream of a racial church with its own bishops, a blend of Ethiopianism and Pan-Africanism, became a reality in ways he did not anticipate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1775 |
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