单词 | negrophilist |
释义 | negrophilistn. Originally U.S. Now chiefly historical. = negrophile n.See usage note at Negro n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > advocacy of black rights or interests > one who negrophile1803 negrophilist1842 Negroite1851 philomelanist1887 1842 S. Ward Let. 20 Dec. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1886) I. xxiii. 429 When the Eastern negrophilists are prepared to pay a tax, they will have a right to dispose of the property of their Southern brethren. 1857 Southern Literary Messenger 24 25/2 Of course he sides with the anti-slavery movement and desires the success of the Negrophilists. 1899 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly June 178 The most infatuated negrophilist. 1913 W. C. Scully Further Reminisc. S. Afr. Pioneer 178 He was the son of a colleague of the celebrated (or, to some, notorious) Dr Vanderkemp, who was such a noted negrophilist in the early days of the nineteenth century. 1949 Amer. Hist. Rev. 55 132 An evident desire to set right Negrophilists in Britain as to the relations of Black and White South Africa. 1997 A. G. Cobley Rules of Game v. 144 Phillips..wrote [in May 1937] from the United States to J. H. Hofmeyr, then minister of the interior, who had a reputation as a negrophilist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1842 |
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