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alienage
the condition of being an alien.
androlepsy
Law. the seizure of foreign subjects to enforce a claim for justice or other right against their nation.
gypsyologist, gipsyologist
Rare. one who studies gypsies. Also gypsologist, gipsologist.
nativism
the custom or policy of favoring native-born citizens over immigrants, as in the awarding of government jobs. See also philosophy. — nativist, n. — nativistic, adj.
naturalization
the process of assuming or being granted citizenship of a country, usually a country other than that of the person’s origin.
peregrinism
1. the state or quality of being foreign or of having come from abroad.
2. something typical or characteristic of a foreigner. — peregrine, adj.
tramontane
1. a person who lives beyond the mountains.
2. a foreigner or stranger. — tramontane, adj.
un-Americanism
the state or condition of being out of sympathy with or against American behavior, attitudes, beliefs, etc. — un-American, n., adj.
xenelasia
Ancient Sparta. a custom prohibiting strangers or foreigners from residing at Sparta and empowering magistrates to expel them.
xenia
Ancient Greece. a custom of hospitality, specifically the giving of presents to guests or strangers, especially foreign ambassadors. — xenial, adj.
xenodocheum, xenodochium
a building’ or special place for the reception of strangers. Also called xenodochy.
xenodochy
1. the reception of or extending of hospitality to strangers or foreigners.
2. xenodocheum.
xenomania
a mania for foreigners.
xenophobia
an abnormal fear or hatred of foreigners and strange things.
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This, therefore, might be called a political position of the Bleeding Hearts; but they entertained other objections to having foreigners in the Yard.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
Besides these Russians and foreigners who propounded new and unexpected ideas every day- especially the foreigners, who did so with a boldness characteristic of people employed in a country not their own- there were many secondary personages accompanying the army because their principals were there.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Taking it into their heads that the boy was ill-used by the foreigners-- for no reason that I could discover, except that he was pretty and delicate-looking--the two girls had stolen along the inner side of the hedge between us and the road, and had watched the proceedings of the foreigners on the outer side.
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