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racewide en · ADJ

Etymology

From race + -wide.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Throughout a race of people.
    • The lynchee's agony is not merely a convenient trope for romantic despair here: it is a preexisting condition, a racewide image of abjection that the loss of a lover serves to reactivate. 2004, Peter M. Birkeland, Franchising Dreams: The Lure of Entrepreneurship in America, page 126: