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westernism

[ wes-ter-niz-uhm ]

noun

(often initial capital letter)
  1. a word, idiom, or practice characteristic of people of the Occident or of the western U.S.


westernism

/ 藞飞蓻蝉迟蓹藢苍瑟锄蓹尘 /

noun

  1. a word, habit, practice, etc, characteristic of western people or of the American West
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of westernism1

An Americanism dating back to 1830鈥40; western + -ism
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Example Sentences

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Yet just there, at the supreme point of his Westernism, we must remember what he was fighting for: the life of a race-nation and a civilization that was contradictory to the West.

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With his support of the missionaries, the native struggles became a religious war between Christianity and paganism as well as between nativism and westernism.

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Yet some of the cultural Westernism has filtered north.

Egyptian objections to the four-hour movie are not so much that Anwar Sadat is played by a black actor, as some reports have suggested, but that accents are often Pakistani rather than Egyptian; some of the garb worn is found in Morocco, not Egypt; Nasser is shown kissing Sadat's wife, an abominated Westernism.

It is all in hopeless contrast with her Wasp Middle Westernism.

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