| 单词 | philistinism |
| 释义 | philistinism|ˈfɪlɪstɪnɪz(ə)m, fɪˈlɪstɪnɪz(ə)m|
[f. Philistine + -ism.]
The opinions, aims, and habits of social Philistines (see prec. A. 4); the condition of being a social Philistine.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. v, One ‘Philistine’; who even now, to the general weariness, was dominantly pouring⁓forth Philistinism (Philistriositäten). 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 248 The Romanticists were..the sworn foes..of that low-minded, prosaic narrowness which Germany calls Philistinism. 1863M. Arnold Ess. Crit., Heine (1865) 157 Philistinism! we have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing. 1890Spectator 29 Nov. 760/2 British Philistinism is extremely overbearing. 1899Q. Rev. Apr. 438 ‘Philistinism’, after all, stands for two great habits, decency and order.
So philistinize |ˈfɪlɪst-, fɪˈlɪstɪnaɪz| v. trans., to render Philistine; to imbue with the tastes, habits, and opinions of those termed Philistines.
1880G. Meredith Tragic Com. xvi. (1892) 224 Children..are secretly Philistinizing the demagogue,..turning him into a slow-stepping Liberal. 1891Zangwill Bachelors' Club 164 She has not been philistinised by a refined education. |
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