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单词 white father
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White Father
White Father n. (a) (now chiefly historical) a white man regarded as protecting or controlling people of another race, esp. North American Indians (attested earliest in Great White Father n. at great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1e; cf. red children n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1f(c)(i)); (b) [after French Père Blanc (1881 or earlier in this sense)] a member of the Society of Missionaries of Africa, a Roman Catholic order founded in Algiers in 1868.
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1806 Literary Mag. Jan. 78 Ye red men! since ye here have been, Your great white father ye have seen, Who cheer'd his children with his voice, And made their beating hearts rejoice.
1834 C. F. Hoffman Let. 1 Feb. in Winter in West (1835) I. 301 The unfortunate agent..was shot in the act of appealing to the Indians as their friend and ‘father’,—the reply being..‘We have no longer any white father.’
1889 R. F. Clarke Cardinal Lavigerie i. iv. 100 The White Fathers—a name given to the Algerian missioners on account of their wearing the long white robe of the Arab.
1894 Harper's Mag. Sept. 516/2 The White Father has sent me.
1915 J. Turner Let. July in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 16 We went in..with one of the White Fathers of Uganda.
1969 Telegraph (Brisbane) 18 Sept. 2/2 The people we detest are the ‘White Fathers’—those who control our destiny.
1977 B. Lucas tr. C. De Foucauld Lett. from Desert vii. 130 Maison-Carrée, near Algiers, the mother-house of the White Fathers.
1992 A. W. Eckert Sorrow in our Heart i. 109 Chiksika and Blue Jacket..were away most of the time.., where Hokolesqua and the other chiefs were treating with the white father, Lord Dunmore.
2007 Independent 29 Sept. 48/3 He..entered the novitiate of the White Fathers (now called the Missionaries of Africa) in 1942 in Algiers.
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