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negrophilic

adj

Etymology

From negro + -philic.

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

Definitions

  1. Characterized by negrophilia.

    • Poe condemned Poems on Slavery as “intended for the especial use of those negrophilic old ladies of the north” who were so cozy with Longfellow and William Ellery Channing, leader of the Unitarian church, to whom the volume was dedicated.

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