Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A foreign idiom or custom.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being foreign.
- n. A foreign idiom or custom.
Wiktionary
- n. any trait, custom, phrase or characteristic typical of a foreign country or language.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.
Etymologies
- foreign + -ism (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“But, so, what we might call loosely anti-foreignism has certainly been present in China at different times.”
“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)
“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.”
“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,
“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.”
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