单词 | orientality |
释义 | orientalityn.ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] > state of being visible > before sunrise orientality1646 the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [noun] > region, zone > east > state of being in orientality1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. vii. 308 The Sunne..hath no power nor efficacie peculiar from its orientality . View more context for this quotation 1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 145 Their [sc. the Planets'] Orientality or Occidentality in respect of the Sun. 1819 J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol. (at cited word) Orientality is generally meant with respect to the ☉. 2. Oriental style or character. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > eastern people > eastern style, character, or quality orientalism1747 orientality1761 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xii. 62 There is an orientality in his [curses], we cannot rise up to. 1890 Longman's Mag. July 292 The scene [was] most striking in its thorough Orientality. 1927 Jrnl. Philos. 24 496 Everything east of Suez may form a class of terms called ‘orientals’ and may be said to have common property of orientality; but no one would maintain seriously that there was a property, orientality, resident in all orientals. 1981 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 23 538 Thus every discrete study of one bit of Oriental material would also confirm in a summary way the profound Orientality of the material. 2001 Art in Amer. (Nexis) 89 30 The exhibition aimed to counter ‘Western-centricism’ with a healthy mix of self-realizing ‘Orientality’ and eclectic globalism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1646 |
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