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Indianism

[ in-dee-uh-niz-uhm ]

noun

  1. action or policy for promoting the interests of Indians, especially American Indians.
  2. a word or usage considered to be characteristic of Indians, especially American Indians.


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Other Word Forms

  • d·· noun adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Indianism1

First recorded in 1645–55; Indian + -ism
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Example Sentences

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The Yours-Mine party supports "nationalism, Indianism and one-ism" according to its website.

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Thinner and weaker, weaker and thinner, month by month, and still I could not, as some advised, “put him out of pain;” he had once saved my life, and I did not feel up to the mark in Red Indianism.

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Brazilian "Indianism" reached its highest point perhaps in José Alencar's famous Guarany, which won for its author national reputation and achieved unprecedented success.

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I think I can hardly overrate the malignity of the principles of Protestant ascendency, as they affect Ireland,—or of Indianism, as they affect these countries, and as they affect Asia,—or of Jacobinism, as they affect all Europe and the state of human society itself.

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That is a fact as necessary as the Indianism of India.

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