Québécois-ness
Québécois-ness noun: the quality of being Québécois.
Noun
Québécois-ness (uncountable)
- The quality of being Québécois.
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti wondered aloud if the gathering wasn’t wildly exaggerating Kerouac’s Québécois-ness.1993, Ken McGoogan, Visions of Kerouac, Lawrencetown Beach, N.S.: Pottersfield Press, →ISBN, page 77
- These examples: a dream, a civic slogan, an act of violence, a news report, etc., must stand alone. Not one of them is representative of ‘Québécois-ness.’1994, Elspeth Probyn, “Love In A Cold Climate: Singularities of Being and Longing”, in Border/Lines, page 26
Examples of Québécois-ness in a sentence
- Therefore, that would seem to indicate that most sovereignists seem not to have an exclusive view of Québécois-ness.1997 August 31, Élie Charest, “Lettre ouverte au ministre Stéphane Dion”, in qc.politique (Usenet):
- Formerly viewed as cultural symbol par excellence of Québécois-ness, chanson has been attributed a new status as it has become a generic label applied to Québec’s musical terrain as a whole.1997 May, Line Grenier, Jocelyne Guilbault, “Créolité and Francophonie in music: Socio-musical repositioning where it matters”, in Cultural...
- They imagined themselves as the antithesis of the sheep, and as such the sheep remains as a pervasive trope against which Québécois-ness is defined and expressed.2016, Geneviève Zubrzycki, “Key Trope: The Sheep”, in Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec, Chicago, Ill....
Forms of Québécois-ness
| alternative form | Quebecois-ness |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Quebecoisness |
| alternative form | Québécoisness |
Origin of Québécois-ness
From Québécois + -ness.
Questions about Québécois-ness
- What does Québécois-ness mean?
- Québécois-ness means the quality of being Québécois.
- How do you use Québécois-ness in a sentence?
- Therefore, that would seem to indicate that most sovereignists seem not to have an exclusive view of Québécois-ness.
- What part of speech is Québécois-ness?
- Québécois-ness is a noun.
Words near Québécois-ness in the dictionary
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