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Ur-race

Ur-race

See also: ur-race

English

Noun

Ur-race (plural Ur-races)

  1. Alternative form of ur-race

ur-race

ur-race

See also: Ur-race

English

Alternative forms

Noun

ur-race (plural ur-races)

  1. A primitive, primordial, or original race; a proto-race
    • 2008, Daniel A. Novak, Realism, Photography and Nineteenth-Century Fiction - Page 108:
      The Jew, then, was at once seen as the definitive race and an equivocal one – at once the embodiment of an Ur-race and the composite body of a mongrel race.
    • 2009, Alan E Steinweis, Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany - Page 28:
      Günther adduced from this fact that the characteristics of the ur-race could be determined from close observation of contemporary Armenians.
    • 2011, Patrick Brantlinger, Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians - Page 118:
      “Aryanism” broadened but also still racialized ideas about the origins of civilization by incorporating all speakers of Indo-European languages, including Indian speaker of Sanskrit-based tongues, into a single, civilizing ur-race, as in Sir Henry Maine's Taming Cannibals.

Derived terms

  • ur-racial