belorussianism

Noun capitalized: Belorussianism

Belorussianism (countable and uncountable, plural Belorussianisms)

1. (rhetoric) An expression or characteristic peculiar to the Belarusian language.
   • KUL 378 is early among Burcev manuscripts (see Appendix, no. A-1). Variation is largely expected to be restricted to phonetic and orthographic Ukrainianisms and Belorussianisms such as […]1987, Moshe Taube, Hugh M. Olmstedt, ““Povest' o Esfiri”: The Ostroh Bible and Maksim Grek's Translation of the Book of Esther”, in Harvard Ukrainian Studies, volume 1, number 1/2, page 102 fn. 14
   • Belorussian thus constitutes a unique phenomenon among the Slavic literary languages: here is a language in a perpetual state of diglosso-schizoglossia involving three related Slavic languages (and two simultaneously – Polish and Russian). The result ofthese conditions was that the first literary...1992, Paul Wexler, ““Diglossia et schizoglossia perpetua – the fate of the Belorussian language””, in Sociolinguistica, volume 6, number 1, →DOI, page 46
2. Support for hegemony of Belorussian identity.
   • As long as Belorussianism had been a movement away from Russia, it was welcome. But as soon as it had become a movement away from Poland, it could not be tolerated. […] the Soviets had been up against men, and not against symbols of Belorussianism.1956, Nicholas Vakar, Belorussia: The Making of a Nation, Harvard University Press, pages 132, 150