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negrolatry

noun

Etymology

From negro + -latry.

  1. derived from *negʷ-✻ — “bare; night”
  2. derived from niger — “shiny black”
  3. borrowed from negro — “black”
  4. formed as negrolatry — “negro + -latry”

Definitions

  1. Excessive admiration and respect for people of African descent.

    • 1862, Russell, Times, The Conservative masses, which lie between negrolatry or nigger-worship and Secession.
    • 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
    • Negrophilia, negromania, negrolatry ended in due course by infecting the Negroes themselves.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA