单词 | caste feeling |
释义 | > as lemmascaste feeling C1. As a modifier with the sense ‘of, relating to, or on the grounds of caste’, as in caste discrimination, caste feeling, etc.; also with the sense ‘by caste’, as in caste-bound, caste-ridden adjs. ΚΠ 1818 Let. 29 July in E. India Affairs: Papers relating to Police, & Civil & Criminal Justice (1819) 325 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 533) XIII. 479 Under the cloak of upholding caste customs, from malignant or vindictive motives. 1855 E. Blyth Let. 4 Aug. in C. Darwin Corr. (1988) V. 399 The..priest-and caste-ridden Hindus. 1875 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (ed. 2) viii. i. 279 The caste-feeling in one class or another. 1932 Current Hist. 37 218/2 His [sc. Gandhi's] purpose was..to reiterate to the British his determination to end caste discrimination against the Untouchables. 1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences 133 The mass of Americans..took it for granted that the typical Briton is essentially a caste-bound snob. 2019 P. Theroux On Plain of Snakes iv. 373 In the caste-conscious Mexican mind, Amurabi was a mestizo, that ethnic group of shifting definitions. < as lemmas |
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