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Definition of Foreignism
1. n. Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.
Definition of Foreignism
1. Noun. any trait, custom, phrase or characteristic typical of a foreign country or language. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foreignism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreignism
Literary usage of Foreignism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Republican Landmarks: The Views and Opinions of American Statesmen on by John Phillip Sanderson (1856)
"We say, then, to our brethren of the other States, let us confine ourselves to
anti- foreignism, which we all agree upon; and not meddle with what will ..."
2. The Methodist Review (1890)
"Whether slavery or foreignism or sectionalism or war had much to do in precipitating
this condition, it matters not, as the chief point is to recognize the ..."
3. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1889)
"... for that foreignism which Catholics bring with them, and perpetuate in their
foreign colony, is nn-Catholic and antagonistic to the American idea, ..."
4. A Biographical Sketch of Henry A. Wise: With a History of the Political by James Pinkney Hambleton (1856)
"We are agitating in the South against foreignism as an evil, although foreigners
are our staunchest friends at the North, where they number ..."
5. Catholic and Protestant Countries Compared in Civilization, Popular by Alfred Young (1895)
"For if the charge of foreignism be true, Catholics have certainly as much ...
Dr. Carroll had already sounded his pagan alarm of " foreignism," and now he ..."
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