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foreignism - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A foreign idiom or custom.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The state of being foreign.
noun A foreign idiom or custom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun any trait , custom , phrase or characteristic typical of a foreign country or language.
Etymologies
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Thousands were made to believe that the Romish hierarchy was about to overthrow our liberties, and that the evils of "foreignism " had become so alarming as to justify the extraordinary measures by which it was proposed to counteract them.
Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 George W. Julian
But, so, what we might call loosely anti-foreignism has certainly been present in China at different times.
CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2008 2008
It only recently hit me that Guizzante does not sound or look like Wissant--and I should look for an equivalent foreignism .
Enciclopedia dantesca, gen. ed. Umberto Bosco, 6 vols (Treccani, 1970-1976) Miglior acque 2007
It has been said, with some accuracy, that this sort of attitude has developed into the only national policy the Arabs have, a policy of anti-foreignism , directed at the outside world and Zionism alike.
Palestine and the Middle East 1945
North by reason of foreignism as at the South because of the
The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1901
Not only do you find the foreigner, of one race or another, everywhere, but wherever you find him in any numbers you note that the most distinctive feature is the foreignism .
Aliens or Americans? 1895
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