单词 | insularism |
释义 | insularismn. The quality of being insular, or of having the character which is developed by living on an island detached from free intercourse with other people; esp. narrowness of ideas, feelings, or outlook. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > insularity, provincialism > [noun] insularity1755 provinciality1769 localism1798 provincialism1819 parish pump1840 parochialism1847 vestrydom1860 vestryism1861 Podsnappery1864 parochialness1866 vestryhood1871 insularism1880 peninsularity1882 parochiality1887 parish pumpery1902 localitis1943 bourgeois-mindedness1955 1880 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 142 The intolerant insularism and contempt of other people, which is one of the great national characteristics of Englishmen. 1880 J. Nichol Byron 210 Unless we wrap ourselves in an insolent insularism, we are bound at least to ask..the meaning of their concurrent testimony. 1888 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Young Mistley II. vii. 101 This curse of ‘insularism’ militates against England. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1880 |
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