Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which is peculiar to the Hottentots; something characteristic of the Hottentots.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering.
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Where among other things he wrote a letter lacerating the atheistic work of Frenchman Constantin Volney and accusing him of “hottentotism” Volney said humans had originated in Africa.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Where among other things he wrote a letter lacerating the atheistic work of Frenchman Constantin Volney and accusing him of “hottentotism” Volney said humans had originated in Africa.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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