单词 | normanist |
释义 | Normanistn.adj. A. n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [noun] > specific other nations > persons Normanist1611 Russophile1853 Turcophil1876 pro-Boer1896 Sinophile1900 Japanophile1905 Hispanophil1910 Bulgarophil1931 Asiacentrist1967 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ii. 417/1 Goodwin and Edmund..fought with Adnothus, (sometime master of their fathers horse, but now a Normanist). 2. An advocate of the theory that Russia was first settled largely by Scandinavians. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [noun] > advocate of specific theory Normanist1872 1872 Athenaeum 27 July 113/2 The question whence these princes came..has often been hotly debated... The weight of argument was probably with the Normanists. 1919 T. G. Masaryk Spirit of Russia i. 11 By the ‘Normanists’, Rus', the Russian name for the country, is derived from Ruotsi, a name which the Finns applied to the Swedes. 1943 G. Vernadsky Anc. Russia vii. iv. 277 The whole argument of the first Normanists was based on the premise that the very name of Rus spread from north to south and not otherwise. 1970 P. G. Foote & D. M. Wilson Viking Achievement vi. 222 Both Normanists and anti-Normanists are more or less agreed that Ladoga was at one time dominated by Scandinavian traders. 2005 S. Plokhy Unmaking Imperial Russia ii. 128 The choice between foreign and native founders of Rus' pitted Normanists against anti-Normanists. B. adj. Of or relating to the theory that Russia was settled largely by Scandinavians, or to the advocates of this theory. ΚΠ 1965 S. Lukashevich Ivan Aksakov i. 11 The Slavophiles supported the Normanist thesis that claimed that the Novgorodians had summoned the Varangians to rule over them because they themselves were incapable of creating a state. 1990 Sci. Amer. Feb. 78/3 The most difficult problem posed by the excavations is that of reconciling Novgorod's unusual form of government and laws with the ‘Normanist’ view of how these institutions evolved. 2009 A. Gleason in A. Gleason Compan. Russ. Hist. i. 5 The debate over the origins of Kievan Rus', known as the ‘Normanist controversy’, has continued for almost three centuries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1611 |
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