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casuistry
casuistry [Lat., casus =case], art of applying general moral law to particular cases. Although most often associated with theology (it has been utilized since the inception of Christianity), it is also used in law and psychology. The function of casuistry is to analyze motives so individual judgme... Read more
dole
dole distribution to the poor, usually of food or money. In medieval times doles were usually from bequests of money or land, and the income was given to charity or distributed to the local poor at funerals. John Leake in 1792 left £1,000 to Trinity Church, New York City, the income of wh... Read more
dole
dole distribution to the poor, usually of food or money. In medieval times doles were usually from bequests of money or land, and the income was given to charity or distributed to the local poor at funerals. John Leake in 1792 left £1,000 to Trinity Church, New York City, the income of wh... Read more
Benjamin McLane Spock
Benjamin McLane Spock 1903-98, American author and pediatrician, b. New Haven, Conn., educ. Yale (B.A., 1925) and Columbia Univ. College of Physicians and Surgeons (M.D., 1929). In 1946, Dr. Spock published The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (later Baby and Child Care ), offering paren... Read more
Baal
Baal , plural Baalim [Semitic,=master, lord], name used throughout the Bible for the chief deity or for deities of Canaan. The term was originally an epithet applied to the storm god Hadad. Technically, Baal was subordinate to El. Baal is attested in the Ebla texts (first half of 2d millennium B... Read more
Sephardim
Sephardim , one of the two major geographic divisions of the Jewish people, consisting of those Jews whose forebears in the Middle Ages resided in the Iberian Peninsula, as distinguished from those who lived in Germanic lands, who came to be known as the Ashkenazim (see Ashkenaz ). The name comes f... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Pejorative"

PEJORATIVE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language PEJORATIVE [Stress: ‘pe-JAW-ra...talked or written about: illiterate is pejorative when used to describe people who can...an illiterate scrawl! ); Dago , a pejorative nickname that distances and devalues...
Canelos Quichua
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Canelos Quichua ETHNONYMS: Alama (pejorative), Canelo, Canelos, Pastaza Quichua...Yumbo (incorrect, misleading, and pejorative) Orientation Identification. The name...reference to Canelos Quichua people is pejorative. Location. The Canelos Quichua occupy...
Militarism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...democracy. Militarism, then, from the start has been a pejorative term. Twentieth-century Germany and Japan are oft-cited...x2014; these wars to militarism, the term is not just a pejorative, it is a pathology. For those averse to war on principle...
idols
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...x2014; image. Throughout the Hebrew Bible, idol is given a pejorative meaning as it is used to describe non-Israelite or non...that God is uncreated, immaterial, and disembodied. The pejorative connotations of the term ‘idol’ were...
Cults
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...modern “ saints. ” Around 1900, this pejorative use influenced anthropologists to use cult to refer to ancient...the political agenda of evil others. Contributing to such pejorative images is the faux-etymology of cult as derived from occult...
Economic Rhetoric
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...aspect of rhetoric, thus helping to give the concept the pejorative meaning of “ mere rhetoric, ” Aristotle...discourse works to influence its intended readers. Still, the pejorative and dismissive meaning of rhetoric as empty speech persists...
Ideology
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...that time, the term ideology has never entirely escaped the pejorative connotations that Napoleon imposed upon it. Karl Marx and...polemical manuscript entitled The German Ideology in which this pejorative sense predominated. Although it was to be the better part...
Levantine
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...of those to whom the term applied. He further included a pejorative nuance that had recently been attached to the term: "Levantines...strong waters to Muslims in most cities of Western Asia." The pejorative implication gained ground. An impressive publication that...
Kmhmu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Kmhmu', Lao Theung; also Kha, Kha Che, Xa Cau, which are pejorative Orientation Identification. The Kmhmu are the indigenous...means "person, human"; they were formerly known by the pejorative term "Kha" or "Xa" (from Tai languages), meaning...
Afro-Hispanic Pacific Lowlanders of Ecuador and Colombia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Afro-Ecuatorianos/Afro-Colombianos (intellectual, pejorative colloquially), Coste ñ os, Gente Morena, Gente...the San Juan), Morenos, Mulatos, Negros (intellectual, pejorative colloquially), Zambos (Ecuador; historically important...

Dictionary entries related to "Pejorative"

pejorative
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology pejorative depreciatory in meaning. XIX. — F. pējoratif , -ive , f. pp. stem of late L. pējōrāre make worse, f. pējor worse; see -ATIVE .
Propaganda
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...Since the twentieth century, propaganda has largely had pejorative associations. The term continues to imply something sinister...to be a useful concept, it first has to be divested of its pejorative connotations. The ancient Greeks regarded persuasion as a...
Historicism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...used in philosophical polemics, and again the usage seems pejorative since it was opposed to academic philosophy and, especially...later nineteenth century historicism had acquired a largely pejorative meaning because of its associations with relativism and the...
political
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...1990s, use of the term political correctness was nearly always pejorative, while the labels politically incorrect and political incorrectness...described was bravely formulated. The abbreviation PC is nearly always pejorative or ironic.
Prejudice
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...and that they are unjust attitudes. The problem with this pejorative concept of prejudice is that no evidence has ever shown that...justified' or "unjustified." This problem with prejudice as a pejorative concept might be one reason why the term "prejudice" has...
Baroque
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...tone and flexible than its 19th-cent. counterpart. Note that 18th-cent. writers used ‘baroque’ in a pejorative sense to mean ‘coarse’ or ‘old-fashioned in taste’.
grimace
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology grimace sb. XVII. — F. grimace , earlier † grimache- Sp. grimazo caricature, f. grima fright (- Gmc. stem of GRIM ) with pejorative suffix -azo :- L. -āceum (cf. -ACEOUS ). Hence, or — F. grimacer , grimace vb. XVIII.
harass
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology harass †tire out ; trouble, worry. XVII. — F. harasser , pejorative deriv. of harer set a dog on, f. hare cry used for this purpose.
-aster
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...ster (whence F. -âtre ), suffix of sbs. and adjs. expressing incomplete resemblance, and hence gen. of pejorative force; e.g. philosophaster petty philosopher, oleaster wild olive. The best-known comp. in Eng. is POETASTER , on...
Syncretism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...practices in such a way that the original features of the religions in question become obscured. The word has thus taken on a pejorative sense, derived from H. Usener who translated it (1898) as religionsmischerei , not so much a mixing as a confusing. The...

Thesaurus entries related to "Pejorative"

pejorative
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus pejorative • adjective  his remarks were considered too pejorative for daytime radio synonyms : disparaging, derogatory, denigratory, deprecatory, defamatory, slanderous, libelous, abusive, insulting, slighting; informal bitchy. antonym: complimentary.
rhetoric
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...Principles of Rhetoric ; 1902.) But the slippage toward the pejorative sense 5 began early. In “Some Fruits of Solitude...word is essentially ambiguous today—generally pejorative but with flashes of a favorable sense: “The word...
abusive
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...offensive, disparaging, belittling, derogatory, opprobrious, disrespectful, denigratory, uncomplimentary, censorious, pejorative, vituperative; defamatory, slanderous, libelous, scurrilous, blasphemous; informal bitchy; archaic contumelious.
insulting
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...synonyms : abusive, rude, offensive, disparaging, belittling, derogatory, deprecatory, disrespectful, uncomplimentary, pejorative; disdainful, derisive, scornful, contemptuous; defamatory, slanderous, libelous, scurrilous, blasphemous; informal...
personal
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...the personal attention of the manager synonyms : in person, individual, special.   5. make personal remarks synonyms : insulting, slighting, derogatory, disparaging, pejorative, offensive. antonyms: public; general.
derogatory
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0;a derogatory remark synonyms : disparaging, denigratory, deprecatory, disrespectful, demeaning; critical, pejorative, negative, unfavorable, uncomplimentary, unflattering, insulting; offensive, personal, abusive, rude, nasty, mean...
slanderous
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus slanderous • adjective  slanderous accusations synonyms : defamatory, denigratory, disparaging, libelous, pejorative, false, misrepresentative, scurrilous, scandalous, malicious, abusive, insulting; informal mudslinging. antonym: complimentary.
opprobrious
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...embarrassed by his father's opprobrious remarks synonyms : abusive, vituperative, derogatory, disparaging, denigratory, pejorative, deprecatory, insulting, offensive, defamatory, vitriolic, libelous, venomous; scornful, contemptuous, derisive...
slighting
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...remark from you and I'm walking out that door synonyms : insulting, disparaging, derogatory, disrespectful, denigratory, pejorative, abusive, offensive, defamatory, slanderous, scurrilous; disdainful, scornful, contemptuous; archaic contumelious...

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The use of pejorative terms to describe patients: "dirtball" revisited.(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; Background: The use of pejorative terms for patients is well documented...respondents recording having heard no pejorative terms. The reported number of different...to 50% considered it harmful. Pejorative terms were used most frequently...
Pirate pejorative - Is it good to be swarthy?
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/3/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...varied as are his needs." Though the context makes those uses pejorative, there could be another influence, McKean notes: "The...I'll go out on a plank, though, and predict that the pejorative swarthy is not gaining speed, despite a temporary revival...
Metaphors and the pejorative framing of marginalized groups: implications for social work education.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social Work Education; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...the purpose of denigrating a group or supporting entrenched pejorative stereotypes. The disquiet or even anger that social workers...profession must be taught to identify, analyze, and counter these pejorative metaphor themes (Lens, 2005; O'Brien, 2003b). Metaphors...
Downlow mountain? De/stigmatizing bisexuality through pitying and pejorative discourses in media.
Magazine article from: The Journal of Men's Studies; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...black bisexual men would likely have received the same kind of pejorative treatment that black bisexuals themselves received in most...in the closet, a set of discussions that had none of the pejorative tone that followed society's introduction to black bisexuality...
Battle Over Word `Jew' Eases; Oxford Dictionary Softens Pejorative Definition
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/7/1989; 656 words ; ...Richardson said he wished the dictionary simply would drop all the pejorative definitions. Tulloch wrote that dictionaries had to record...which it exists." Other British dictionaries also include pejorative definitions of "Jew." Chambers 20th Century Dictionary...
`Pejorative' terms offend
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail; 8/6/2008; 277 words ; ...disabled child", "the disabled" and "disabled children" do not belong in the 21st century. They are inaccurate, pejorative, and perpetuate exclusive attitudes. All children have learning challenges which differ in degree only. Some require more...
Analysis: Source magazine exposes a song Eminem did years ago where he states pejorative views of black women and African-Americans in general
Transcript from: Tavis Smiley (NPR); 11/20/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...magazine exposes a song Eminem did years ago where he states pejorative views of black women and African-Americans in general Host...allegedly racist song performed by the rapper in which he makes pejorative statements about black women and African-Americans in general...
COLUMN: The politics of pejorative in the stem cell debate
News Wire article from: University Wire; 7/28/2006; ; 642 words ; ...those quarters claim to have the intellectually superior position on the issue, they only seem to be practicing politics by pejorative. Instead of attempting to deal intellectually with the issue, they deceive. First, Bush's veto does nothing, absolutely...
Shrek 2 Temporarily Banned Until Pejorative Remark is Removed.
Newspaper article from: Israel Faxx; 7/13/2004; 364 words ; ...in Israel until a reference to singer David Da'or was removed from the translation. Da'or's name was mentioned in a pejorative context, he claimed. Da'or, a singer known for his high-pitched voice, submitted his request Sunday for an injunction...
Feminist is not a pejorative word: Steinem
Newspaper article from: Cleveland Jewish News; 11/11/2005; 510 words ; Cleveland Jewish News 11-11-2005 Some young women today say "feminist" like it?s a pejorative term. Gloria Steinem doesn?t buy it. Studies showing college-educated women want to stay home with kids are "total bull...