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foreignist

foreignist adjective: favoring the foreign.

Adjective

foreignist (comparative more foreignist, superlative most foreignist)

  1. Favoring the foreign.
    • foreignist translation theory
    • Identifying E4 as the ideal ‘foreignizing’ translation and E11 as the ideal ‘domesticating’ translation, for example, the foreignist theorist can then proceed to build an entire bivalent model for the limits of translation[…].2000, Peter France, The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, OUP, →ISBN, page 20

Noun

foreignist (plural foreignists)

  1. One who favors what is foreign.

Forms of foreignist

Adjective
comparativemore foreignist
superlativemost foreignist
Noun
pluralforeignists

Origin of foreignist

From foreign + -ist.

Questions about foreignist

What does foreignist mean?
Foreignist means favoring the foreign.
What part of speech is foreignist?
Foreignist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near foreignist in the dictionary

  1. foreignership
  2. foreignise
  3. foreignising
  4. foreignism
  5. foreignisms
  6. foreignist
  7. foreignists
  8. foreignization
  9. foreignize
  10. foreignized
  11. foreignizer

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