单词 | fraternization |
释义 | fraternizationn. a. The action of fraternizing or uniting as brothers, the state or condition of fraternity, fraternal association. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > fraternization > [noun] fraternization1792 fraternizing1793 confraternization1840 1792 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 2 They..give the kiss of fraternization to negroes. 1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth I. 78 The Jacobins in realizing their systems of fraternization, contrived always to be the elder brothers. 1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 125 Something even approaching to a fraternisation of the people with the dreaded foreign soldiery. b. spec. The cultivation, subject to military discipline, of friendly relations by occupying troops with local inhabitants; relations with local inhabitants that contravene military discipline: used esp. of relations with German women after the war of 1939–45. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > fraternization > [noun] > between occupying troops and local inhabitants fraternization1944 1851 [see sense a]. 1944 New Statesman 7 Oct. 233/1 The administration of occupied Germany..must necessarily be ‘tough’... To judge by his Proclamation No. 1 to the German people, and by his orders forbidding fraternisation, General Eisenhower is going to present his subordinate commanders and staffs with some knotty problems. 1945 New Statesman 21 Apr. 252/2 At present it is not clear whether rape [by occupying troops] is a crime to be punished by death, or whether it should be classified as fraternisation, for which the penalty is a fine, or non-fraternisation, which is a laudable act. 1945 Spectator 10 Aug. 130/1 ‘Fraternisation’... I write to challenge the implication in ‘Serving Officer's’ letter that to frequent brothels is to ‘be human’. 1946 Amer. Speech 21 251 I once saw a soldier who had philanthropically sold a prisoner of war a pack of cigarettes for $12 charged with ‘fraternization’. 1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. vii. 88 The famous order of the day of the G.O.C. Palestine..which..imposed a ban on fraternization with the Jews. 1969 Guardian 29 Aug. 1/6 In Olomouc there are still many girls..whose heads have been shaved for too intimate a fraternisation with their Russian brothers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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