Racial
['reɪʃ(ə)l] or ['reʃl]
Definition
(adj.) of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups; 'racial differences'; 'racial discrimination' .
(adj.) of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people; 'racial groups' .
Checked by Leroy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to a race or family of men; as, the racial complexion.
Editor: Stu
Definition
adj. relating to lineage peculiar to a race.—adv. Rā′cially.
Editor: Rae
Examples
- His racial Jewish commercialism made the antagonism of property and labour very plain to him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Great movements of the racial soul come at first like a thief in the night, and then suddenly are discovered to be powerful and world-wide. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But we use the word Life to denote the whole range of experience, individual and racial. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Do fingerprints show racial characteristics? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Then she said with strange assumption of authority: 'Yes, but even so, is the patriotic appeal an appeal to the racial instinct? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Thus you hear from Southerners that unless socialism gives up its demand for racial equality, the propaganda cannot go forward. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He knew the relation of the soil to the rocks, and th e effects of both on racial characteristics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The Jewish idea was and is a curious combination of theological breadth and an intense racial patriotism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is often administered by men who are themselves half-educated, and it is shot through with racial and class prejudice. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Later on the east coast was raided and settled by Northmen, but we do not know to what extent they altered the racial quality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is concerned with more or less immediate proposals, and in a nation split up by class, sectional and racial interests, these proposals are sure to arouse hostility. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He does in wars, in racial and religious persecutions; he did in the Spain of the Inquisition; he does in the American lynching. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Rae