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racialist

noun

Etymology

1910 (noun), 1917 (adjective). racial + -ist, from older racialism (1882).

  1. derived from hárr — “grey-haired; hoary”
  2. derived from haraz — “troop of horses”
  3. derived from رَأْس — “head”
  4. derived from linea sanguinis — “bloodline of descent”
  5. derived from *raiza✻ — “line”
  6. derived from *raitō✻
  7. derived from razza
  8. borrowed from race
  9. formed as racial — “race + -ial”
  10. suffixed as racialist — “racial + ist”

Definitions

  1. A believer or advocate of racialism, the ideology of racial nationalism.

    • It was a fundamentally racialist attitude which regarded the native people of empire countries as primitive simpletons only fit to be led by a breed of men of higher intellect and moral fibre.

  2. A racist.

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