negrophile
negrophile noun: one who takes an interest in the black (negro) race.
Noun
negrophile (plural negrophiles)
- One who takes an interest in the black (negro) race.
- In the form of a dedication to those colonists who have been ruined by the revolution of the ‘negrophiles,’ our author contrives to give a life and character of himself; reminds these unfortunate people […] how he used to plead their causes for small fees; how he afterwards gave up the bar in order...1803, Review of Second Voyage à la Louisiane by [Louis Narcisse] Baudry des Lozières in The Edinburgh Review, Volume 3, Number 5, October 1803, p. 82
- General Meade was no negrophile, and hence under him there were no more long oration orders on the rights of “that large class of citizens heretofore excluded from the suffrage.”1905, Walter Lynwood Fleming, Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama, Part 5, Chapter 12, p. 498
Forms of negrophile
| plural | negrophiles |
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Origin of negrophile
From negro + -phile.
Questions about negrophile
- What does negrophile mean?
- Negrophile means one who takes an interest in the black (negro) race.
- What part of speech is negrophile?
- Negrophile is a noun.
- What is the plural of negrophile?
- The plural of negrophile is negrophiles.
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