monolinguisticadj.
/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɑnəˌlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/ = monolingual adj.
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monoglot1830
monolingual1855
unilingual1866
monolinguistic1887
monolingual1956
1887 Globe 22 Jan. 1/4 With North America, Australia, and South Africa, peopled by an English-speaking race, it hardly seems likely that careers will ever fail Britons who add to their monolinguistic failing the other national qualities of honesty and industry.
1942 L. B. Namier Conflicts 3 Union..in monolinguistic national States became in the nineteenth century the political aim of the educated, and in time of the semi-educated, classes in Europe.
1969 Jrnl. Philos. 66 315 A monolinguistic truth vehicle.
1997 College Lit. (Electronic ed.) June Derrida may be monolinguistic but his tradition of dialectics..is grounded in Judeo-Islamic hermeneutical sensibilities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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