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Definition of Occidentalism

1. Noun. The scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people.

2. Noun. The quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Western civilizations.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Occidentalism

occasionate occasionated occasionates occasionating occasioned occasioner occasioning occasions occasionwear occasive

occecation occerence occident occidentalise occidentalism (current term) occidentalize occidentalized occidentalizes occidentalizing occidentally

occidentals occidentotropism occidentotropisms occidents occiduous occies occipita occipital anchorage

Literary usage of Occidentalism

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

1. Library of Universal History: Containing a Record of the Human Race from the by Israel Smith Clare (1897)
"But the struggle between occidentalism and Orientalism, ... The contrast between those two things, occidentalism and Orientalism, you cannot mistake. ..."

2. The Note-book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood (1915)
""But we of Hungary who are on the geographical frontier of occidentalism, who are, in these present ... My definitions of occidentalism are four in number. ..."

3. The Land of Sunshine by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1899)
"It is set to be the intellectual representative of the front rank of occidentalism, the rank that will lead the charge or bear the shock. ..."

4. Library of Universal History: Containing a Record of the Human Race from the by Israel Smith Clare (1897)
"But the struggle between occidentalism and Orientalism, ... The contrast between those two things, occidentalism and Orientalism, you cannot mistake. ..."

5. The Note-book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood (1915)
""But we of Hungary who are on the geographical frontier of occidentalism, who are, in these present ... My definitions of occidentalism are four in number. ..."

6. The Land of Sunshine by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1899)
"It is set to be the intellectual representative of the front rank of occidentalism, the rank that will lead the charge or bear the shock. ..."

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