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negrolatry

negrolatry noun: excessive admiration and respect for people of African descent.

Noun

negrolatry (uncountable)

  1. (offensive, rare) Excessive admiration and respect for people of African descent.
    • The Conservative masses, which lie between negrolatry or nigger-worship and Secession.1862, Russell, Times
    • 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 country1937, 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...

Origin of negrolatry

From negro + -latry.

Questions about negrolatry

What does negrolatry mean?
Negrolatry means excessive admiration and respect for people of African descent.
What part of speech is negrolatry?
Negrolatry is a noun.

Words near negrolatry in the dictionary

  1. negroize
  2. negroized
  3. negroizes
  4. negroizing
  5. Negroland
  6. negrolatry
  7. negrolike
  8. Negroloid
  9. negromancy
  10. Negron
  11. Negroness

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