"negrolatry" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From negro + -latry. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|negro|-latry}} negro + -latry Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} negrolatry (uncountable)
  1. (now offensive, rare) Excessive admiration and respect for people of African descent. Tags: offensive, rare, uncountable Related terms: negrophilism, negrophilia Translations (worship of Negroes (offensive)): négrolatrie [feminine] (French)
    Sense id: en-negrolatry-en-noun-GLuWS6Sy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -latry

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          "text": "1862, Russell, Times,\nThe Conservative masses, which lie between negrolatry or nigger-worship and Secession."
        },
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          "ref": "1937, Lowell Joseph Ragatz, “Review of: William Law Matheison, The Sugar Colonies and Governor Eyre, 1849–1866, New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1936”, in The American Historical Review, volume 42, number 4, page 824",
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          "ref": "1949, René Maunier, The Sociology of the Colonies (Part 1): An Introduction to the Study of Race Contact, Taylor and Francis, page 59",
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