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negrophile

noun

Etymology

From negro + -phile.

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

Definitions

  1. One who takes an interest in the black (negro) race.

    • General Meade was no negrophile, and hence under him there were no more long oration orders on the rights of “that large class of citizens heretofore excluded from the suffrage.”

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