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miscegenation
/mɪˌsɛd͡ʒ.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
noun 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
spiritual, yellow
VERB + MISCEGENATION
fear, taught
MISCEGENATION + NOUN
human, latin, peril
PREP.
between
Definitions
noun
1
The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.
Anissimov took to posting paranoid white supremacist rants on Twitter. Why, he asked, do “blacks get your own continent”? “European whites are being replaced and destroyed by ‘diversity,’” he cried. He denounced miscegenation and declared that women should be confined to the home.
2
A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate.
as is clear in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, it has a horror of any spiritual miscegenation between the human and the natural.
... if a miscegenation of Latin and Sanskrit may be permitted.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — reproduction by parents of different races (especially by wh
- crossbreeding
- interbreeding
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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Anissimov took to posting paranoid white supremacist rants on Twitter. Why, he asked, do “blacks get your own continent”? “European whites are being replaced and destroyed by ‘diversity,’” he cried. H
Wiktionary02
as is clear in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, it has a horror of any spiritual miscegenation between the human and the natural.
Wiktionary03
... if a miscegenation of Latin and Sanskrit may be permitted.
Wiktionary04
Generations of Americans were taught to fear—miscegenation, "the yellow peril," Italians, communism.
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