negrolatry
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English
Etymology
Noun
negrolatry (uncountable)
- (now offensive, rare) Excessive admiration and respect for people of African descent.
- 1862, Russell, Times, [1]
- The Conservative masses, which lie between negrolatry or nigger-worship and Secession.
- 1937, Lowell Joseph Ragatz, “Review of: William Law Matheison, The Sugar Colonies and Governor Eyre, 1849–1866, New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1936”, in The American Historical Review[2], volume 42, number 4, page 824:
- Many readers will go further and hail him as an unfortunate victim of negrophilism and negrolatry among ignorant sentimentalists and professional busybodies in the home country
- 1862, Russell, Times, [1]
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Translations
worship of Negroes (offensive)
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