单词 | indianism |
释义 | Indianismn. 1. a. The customs or culture of American Indians; attachment or allegiance to such a culture. In later use also: advocacy or advancement of American Indian interests. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > due recognition of indigenous peoples > specific Indianism1651 indigenous rights1858 1651 W. French in Strength out of Weakness (1652) 37 All the while I went on in Indianisme I was going from God. 1710 S. Sewall Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1886) 6th Ser. I. 401 Though some of their aged men are tenacious enough of Indianisme... Others of them as earnestly wish that their people may be made English. 1887 W. Tirebuck in H. W. Longfellow Hyperion, Kavanagh & Trouvères Introd. p. xiii Those who stood between the culture of Hyperion and Kavanagh, and the wild Indianism of Aimard and Cooper. 1935 Geogr. Jrnl. 86 378 Indianism in Mexico ‘means a deliberate repudiation of everything white’. The objective of Indianism is the reversion to the pre-Spanish state. 1950 Caribbean Q. 2 iii. 14 It is in the Antilles, in Cuba and Santo Domingo that one finds the most abundant, and some of the best manifestations of literary Indianism. 2000 N. Manrique in V. Schelling Through Kaleidoscope ix. 240 As long as it continues to be an organisation which does not represent the Indians of the Peruvian sierra, Indianism will continue to be a marginal movement in Peruvian politics. b. A loanword from an American Indian language; (also) a word or idiom characteristic of English as spoken by American Indians, esp. a calque from an American Indian language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > borrowed American Indian word Indianism1806 1806 Lit. Mag. & Amer. Reg. Apr. 297/1 Such vulgar ‘Indianisms’, as squashes—and pumpkins—and calabashes. 1855 C. Bristed in Cambr. Ess. I. 68 The term [‘Yankee’] is..remarkable, as being the only Indianism that has found a place among Americanisms. 1973 Lang. & Lang. Behavior Abstr. 7 185/1 (heading) About new investigations of Indianisms in the Spanish of Mexico. 1992 Eng. Lang. Notes 29 No. 3. 70 Such terms [as ‘long knives’, ‘council fires’, ‘whispering spirit’] can be classified as Indianisms, English words or phrases that translate expressions in Indian languages. 2. a. The culture, institutions, or ideals of India (†formerly also spec. of British India); attachment or allegiance to these. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > cultures of specific peoples or nations Indianism1672 Gaeldom1860 zadruga1887 Nazca1917 Amratian1928 Ibero-Maurusian1934 Oranian1934 Levantinism1949 1672 H. Oldenburg tr. F. Bernier Contin. Memories conc. Empire Great Mogol III. 101 I do not yet well know, whether I am not somewhat infected still with Indianisme. 1795 E. Burke Let. 26 May in Wks. (1813) V. 232 I think I can hardly overrate the malignity of the principles of protestant ascendancy, as they affect Ireland; or of indianism, as they affect these countries, and as they affect Asia. 1860 Eclectic Rev. Apr. 353 Old Indianism, with its ignorance of home, its open irreligion, its gross vices, was fast passing away. 1923 Spectator 29 Sept. 422/1 In India it works out in unrest..an exaggerated sense of Indianism—the nationalistic idea. 1969 Indo-Asian Culture Oct. 25 It was after the coming of the Buddha that Indianism travelled fast. 2007 Indian Express (Nexis) 6 July The unique fact of Indianism, where national, ethnic, regional and linguistic identities often transcend or mask those of religion. b. A word or idiom characteristic of English as spoken by Indians; (also) a loanword from an Indian language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > Indian English > idiom of Indianism1924 1924 Jrnl. Philos. 21 381 Occasionally one finds certain definite Indianisms—what in India are called instances of ‘babu English’. 1965 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 14 340 There were too many Indianisms and slips of grammar for an international publication. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 June 30/4 Vikram Seth..filled his pages with Indianisms, and yet declined to include a glossary. 2004 S. China Morning Post (Nexis) 30 Oct. 6 The cringing embarrassment over Indianisms have [sic] all disappeared. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1651 |
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