单词 | asianism |
释义 | Asianismn. 1. A quality, custom, or trait peculiar to or characteristic of Asians; typically Asian character or behaviour; the fact or quality of being Asian, Asianness. ΚΠ 1862 C. P. Smyth Three Cities in Russia II. iv. v. 455 The Asianisms and Anti-Asianisms of Russia are impressive and difficult of study. She has some Asianisms, and so has every nation of Europe. 1867 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 1 Aug. 1/8 Eternal sleep is the bliss of God, and ‘never be born again!’ is Hindooism, is Buddhism, is Asianism, is the oriental as contrasted with our idea of religion. You see it in all normal Asiatic life. 1918 F. W. Bussell Relig. Thought & Heresy in Middle Ages 148 Miss Davis lays emphasis on the Asianism of ancient Greece and seems to refer to the undoubted analogies of hellenic and hindu thought to direct borrowing on the part of the former. 2012 @ajburt22 10 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 12 Mar. 2021) I do embrace my asianism, in all aspects. 2. Classical History. With reference to oratorical or literary style: the quality of being elaborate, rhythmic, and emotive, in a manner held to be characteristic of the Greeks of Asia Minor of the third to first centuries b.c. Contrasted with Atticism. Cf. Asiaticism n. 1. ΚΠ 1876 R. C. Jebb Attic Orators II. xxiv. 438 It is important..to get rid of the notion that, when ‘Asianism’ is opposed to ‘Atticism’, the meaning is that Attic simplicity was overlaid by the tawdry taste of the Orientals among whom Greek letters were diffused by the conquests of Alexander. 1929 L. D. Bell Public Speaker's Dict. 13 Asianism, a florid style of Oratory which grew up in Asia Minor after the Decline of Greece. Its chief characteristics were a love of display and a lack of taste and restraint. This is probably why the Theory that Oratory is nothing but a knack produced by practice, was called Asianism. 2012 Zeitschr. f. Papyrol. u. Epigr. 182 137 This inscription was briefly mentioned during the first quarter of the 20th century in discussions of Hellenistic rhetorical ‘Asianism’. 3. Any of various doctrines and movements advocating the political unification of Asia or solidarity among Asian nations, esp. against the perceived threat of Western political and cultural domination. Cf. pan-Asianism n. ΚΠ 1948 Sino-Indian Jrnl. Dec. 59 Indian Asianism is to be treated as but a new phase of India's expansion in inter-human contacts and nothing more. 1953 K. M. Panikkar Asia & Western Dominance Concl. 493 The sense of Asianism is exclusively the counterpart of the solidarity of European feeling... From 1880 to 1914..the Europeans were united against Asia, and this attitude, in its turn, gave birth to a sense of Asianism. 1989 Business Week (Nexis) 10 Apr. 42 Japan's new nationalism is real, and it is intimately linked with Asianism. 2020 Indian Express (Nexis) 1 Sept. After the Cold War, India re-embraced Asianism in the 1990s when it unveiled the Look East Policy and joined the Asian regional institutions led by the Association of South East Asian Nations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1862 |
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