Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Eccl.) Western Christians of the Latin rite. See
orientals .
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Examples
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Occidentals also frequently portray the ongoing clash as one between the West and Islam, almost never as between Christianity and Islam.
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Hearing this, Asians may have muttered about inscrutable Occidentals.
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Despite its sharp rise this year, the Tokyo market is still more than 40 percent lower (in yen) than it was at its peak - in 1989, when xenophobic Occidentals were convinced that Japanese world domination was the wave of the future.
Trend Surfing 2008
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You must have noticed the attitude almost universal in Oriental philosophies that our senses and their physical experiences are of less importance than we Occidentals believe.
Antiquarian Weird Tales: A DAMSEL WITH A DULCIMER By MALCOLM FERGUSON Chris Perridas 2008
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In a short but masterful exposition, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman seeks to answer a question that puzzles most Western observers: Why do so many Muslims demand the "restoration" of a legal system that most Occidentals associate with "medieval" punishments such as amputation for theft and stoning for sexual transgressions?
The Rise of the Muslim Terrorists Ruthven, Malise 2008
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You must have noticed the attitude almost universal in Oriental philosophies that our senses and their physical experiences are of less importance than we Occidentals believe.
Archive 2008-04-01 Chris Perridas 2008
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Much later, China went into a long, somnolent decline, and Occidentals were happy to leave it there.
On To The Millennium 2008
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The entrance hall was designed to have the ring of far distant China, with bamboo sculptings and sculptures of bowing Chinamen (that actually move thanks to clever wind-up mechanisms) and gilt-edged foo dogs … But nobody, including the architect or the designer, had ever actually been to China, so you have China As Seen By Clueless Occidentals.
Impressions From A One Hundred And Forty-Four Hour Sojourn scarletdemon 2006
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Look at the valleys here between the Orientals and the Occidentals.
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Don't give up on us Occidentals yet, it's only a matter of Time and Education.
No, BBC, Africa is not one or two countries uknaija 2006
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