| 单词 | clannish |
| 释义 | clannish, a.|ˈklænɪʃ|
[f. clan n. + -ish.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a clan; having the sympathies, prejudices, etc. of a clan; attached to one's own clan.
1776Wilkes in Boswell Johnson (1887) III. 73 The clannish slavery of the Highlands. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. 461 Clannish watch-words were abolished. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (ed. 3) III. 73 The clannish spirit of provincial literature. 1849W. Irving Crayon Misc. 223 It was not always safe to have even the game of foot-ball between villages, the old clannish spirit was too apt to break out. 1861Dixon Hist. Ld. Bacon iii. § 2 That clannish pride which she always felt for her mother's kin.
Hence ˈclannishly adv.; ˈclannishness, attachment to one's own clan.
1861Wynter Soc. Bees 428 Mine host is a Dorsetshire man; and with a pardonable clannishness, has imported a little colony from his county. 1873Spectator 23 Aug. 1060/1 The clannishness fostered by a separate tongue, and the gratification of the lonely pride all such races feel. 1881Masson Carlyle in Macm. Mag. XLV. 72 A few companions clannishly selected..from among the Dumfriesshire or Galloway lads. |
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