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negrolatry en · NOUN

Etymology

From negro + -latry.

Meanings

  1. (offensive, rare, uncountable) Excessive admiration and respect for people of African descent.
    • 1862, Russell, Times, The Conservative masses, which lie between negrolatry or nigger-worship and Secession.
    • Negrophilia, negromania, negrolatry ended in due course by infecting the Negroes themselves. 1949, René Maunier, The Sociology of the Colonies (Part 1): An Introduction to the Study of Race Contact, Taylor and Francis, →ISBN, page 59:
    • Many readers will go further and hail him as an unfortunate victim of negrophilism and negrolatry among ignorant sentimentalists and professional busybodies in the home country 1937, Lowell Joseph Ragatz, “Review of: William Law Matheison, The Sugar Colonies and Governor Eyre, 1849–1866, New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1936”, in The American Historical Review, volume 42, number 4, page 824:

Relateds

negrophilism · negrophilia

Translations (1)

fr négrolatrie (worship of Negroes (offensive))