Definition of Miscegen

1. a person of mixed race [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Miscegen

miscataloged
miscataloging
miscatalogs
miscategorisation
miscategorisations
miscategorise
miscategorised
miscategorises
miscategorising
miscategorization
miscategorizations
miscategorize
miscategorized
miscategorizes
miscategorizing
miscegen (current term)
miscegenate
miscegenated
miscegenates
miscegenating
miscegenation
miscegenational
miscegenations
miscegenative
miscegenic
miscegenistic
miscegens
miscegeny

Literary usage of Miscegen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"A miscegen is a hybrid, particularly of white and black. ... 1864 A very sprightly suffragan of a miscegen stamp....the result would be an average ..."

2. Eight Years in Congress, from 1857-1865: Memoir and Speeches by Samuel Sullivan Cox (1865)
"The writer then goes on to show what this miscegen will become physiologically. ... The purest miscegen will be brown, with reddish cheeks, curly and waving ..."

3. Hand-book of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark (1894)
"miscegen A.TION. 131. miscegenation, or intermarriage between the white and negro races, or the living together of such persons in adultery or fornication, ..."

4. White Supremacy and Negro Subordination; Or, Negroes a Subordinate Race, and by John H. Van Evrie (1868)
"Truthful, bold, outspoken, it has never hesitated to call the Abolition miscegen crow by their proper names. It has always opposed and denounced the ..."

5. The Three Americas Railway: An International and Intercontinental Enterprise by Hinton Rowan Helper (1881)
"... or with that pure Latin race from which they claim to have originated, and from which they have degenerated. * * * All the endeavors of miscegen- ..."

6. Subgenation: The Theory of the Normal Relation of the Races : an Answer to by John H. Van Evrie (1864)
"If "the type man is, a miscegen," he surely ought to have been produced in Mexico. If the mixed races are superior, why is it that Mexico has been ..."

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