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tokenist

adj
/ˈtəʊk(ə)nɪst/UK

Etymology

From token + -ist, after tokenism.

  1. inherited from tācnian
  2. inherited from toknen
  3. derived from *deyḱ-✻ — “to show, instruct, teach”
  4. inherited from *taikną✻ — “indicator, symbol, sign”
  5. inherited from *taikn✻
  6. inherited from tācn — “sign, symbol”
  7. inherited from token
  8. formed as tokenist — “token + -ist”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to or indicative of tokenism.

    • The question of whether women could be masons at all was hotly debated, and though many women did join, this was usually in affiliative ‘lodges of adoption’, which were restricted to a tokenist, decorative and spectatorial role.

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