Crossword-Solution: NATIVISM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nativism | n. | The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries. |
| Nativism | n. | The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NATIVISM | anagram | VITAMINS |
We have 2 clues for the answer “NATIVISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Xenophobic policy | 1 answer |
| policy of favouring the natives of a country over the immigrants | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
VIIEND
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with NATIVISM (5)
But nativism was powerful, and position important at that time, as Lee and Gates and even Hamilton himself experienced.
Another was the baneful influence of "nativism," which had just broken out in the great cities, and been made the occasion of such frightful riot and bloodshed in Philadelphia as to alarm our foreign-born citizens, and throw them almost unanimously against the Whigs.
Ever since the alien and sedition laws, cry had been raised at intervals against the too easy attainment of citizenship by the unnumbered immigrants thronging to our shores, and agitation raised, more or less successful, to thrust forward "Nativism" or Americanism, with opposition to the Roman Catholic Church, as an issue in our politics.
With his support of the missionaries, the native struggles became a religious war between Christianity and paganism as well as between nativism and westernism.
Witness the periodical outbursts of Nativism or Know‐Nothingism which have from time to time disgraced our national character.
Quotes with NATIVISM (3)
Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if we all got along. If there were no terrorism, Islamophobia, Western hypocrisy, corrupt government in African countries (especially Liberia), sexism, nativism, people like Donald Trump, stereotypes, war, Capitalism, Communism, Marxism and xenophobia.
I am against all kinds of oppression. Poverty, Sexism, racism, terrorism, classicism, imperialism, heterosexism, Cisgenderism, colorism, Ableism, and Nativism. Because it hinder human progression.
In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: WSJ.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2017).