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Afrikanerdom en · NOUN

Etymology

From Afrikaner + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The world or sphere of Afrikaners.
    • He rules sovereign over the world and works His will in the affairs of nations — most visibly of Afrikanerdom. 1980, T. Dunbar Moodie, The rise of Afrikanerdom: power, apartheid, and the Afrikaner civil religion:
    • Afrikanerdom is being repositioned as an endangered minority within a liberal democracy. From a strategic point of view this must be judged a good move. 2006, Chris Brink, No lesser place: the taaldebat at Stellenbosch:
    • Yet as with the American South, there is a distinctly caricaturable quality to rural Afrikanerdom, and the sophisticated Afrikaners of Johannesburg and Cape Town enjoy making fun of them. 2009, John Simpson, Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales, page 197: