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English
Etymology
From negro + -phile.
Noun
negrophile (plural negrophiles)
- (dated, offensive) One who takes an interest in the black (negro) race.
- 1803, Review of Second Voyage à la Louisiane by Baudry des Lozières in The Edinburgh Review, Volume 3, Number 5, October 1803, p. 82,
- In the form of a dedication to those colonists who have been ruined by the revolution of the ‘negrophiles,’ our author contrives to give a life and character of himself; reminds these unfortunate people how he used to plead their causes for small fees; how he afterwards gave up the bar in order to fight for them
1905, Walter Lynwood Fleming, Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama, Part 5, Chapter 12, p. 498:General Meade was no negrophile, and hence under him there were no more long oration orders on the rights of “that large class of citizens heretofore excluded from the suffrage.”
1948, Alan Paton, chapter 24, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, page 175:[…] I shall devote myself, my time, my energy, my talents, to the service of South Africa. I shall no longer ask myself if this or that is expedient, but only if it is right. […] I shall do this, not because I am a negrophile and a hater of my own, but because I cannot find it in me to do anything else.
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