单词 | untouchability |
释义 | untouchabilityn. The quality or state of being untouchable; the condition or status of an untouchable; the social practice of having a class or caste of untouchables. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > lack of affability strangenessc1386 unhomelinessc1440 fremdnessa1500 coldness1557 coolnessa1586 self-guarda1586 diskindness1596 formality1599 reservedness1606 inaffability1611 restrainta1616 unconess1637 chillness1639 froideur1645 distance1660 starchedness1670 buckram1682 starchness?1693 starch1694 reserve1711 stiffness1717 unapproachableness1727 retirement1803 angularity1824 standoffishness1826 distancy1836 chill1837 starchiness1844 unapproachability1846 hedgehogginess1858 standoff1865 offishness1867 aloofness1878 pokerishness1880 untouchableness1909 untouchability1919 stuffiness1926 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > member of any low Hindu caste > member of specific low Hindu caste > quality or condition of untouchableness1909 untouchability1919 1919 F. B. Fisher India's Silent Revol. v. 110 The depressed classes are now holding Untouchability Conferences at frequent intervals. 1928 Speeches Maharaja of Baroda 244 The question of untouchability was particularly Hindu. 1929 19th Cent. Dec. 763 His own system..tends to perpetuate such cruel social abuses as untouchability and child marriage. 1952 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown Structure & Function in Primitive Society vii. 138 An extreme sanctity or untouchability attached to a chief born of a brother and sister who were themselves children of a brother and sister. 1958 Times 9 Sept. 9/6 The origin of untouchability in Japan is not clear. 1978 L. Heren Growing up on The Times ii. 44 Untouchability, surely the greatest injustice in the history of mankind. 1979 J. Wainwright Tension xvii. 59 She has a perpetual air of untouchability about her. 1982 Times 24 June 3 Among the first generation [of Asians], untouchability is practised..in Britain... The Hindus of Southall have a separate temple for their untouchables. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1919 |
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