[Ads-l] Antedating of "Racialist" (Adjective)

[Shapiro, Fred]

racialist (OED, adjective, 1924)

1908 Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia) 9 Nov. 7/3 (Newspapers.com)  DEATH OF RACIAL FEELING. ... Colonel Seely (Under-Secretary for the Colonies), speaking at Manchester [emphasized] that the racialist South African was dead.

Fred Shapiro




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