ethnically, adv.
(ˈɛθnɪkəlɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
† 1. In an ‘ethnical’ or heathenish manner. Obs.
| 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 117/2 This pope..mainteined the filthie idolatrie of images..commanding them most ethnicallie to be incensed. |
2. As regards race; ‘racially’.
| 1847 Grote Greece ii. xxii. III. 464 The Œnotrians were ethnically akin to the primitive population of Rome. 1876 Gladstone Synchr. Homer. 65 No one can suppose Trojan and Hellene to have been..ethnically one, though both were probably of the Aryan stock. |
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▸ ethnically clean adj.compare Albanian i pastër etnikisht, Serbian and Croatian etnički čist (of a geographical area, a society, etc.) purged of ethnic or religious minority groups; cf. ethnic cleansing n.
| 1982 N.Y. Times 12 July a8/1 The nationalists have a two-point platform, according to Becir Hoti, an executive secretary of the Communist Party of Kosovo, first to establish what they call an *ethnically clean Albanian republic and then the merger with Albania to form a greater Albania. 1995 N. Cigar Genocide in Bosnia vi. 71 When the commander of a Serbian militia movement was able to report that ‘this region is ethnically clean’..he was clearly proud of what he viewed as an achievement. 2001 Washington Times (Nexis) 24 May a20 [One view is] that problems can be solved by usurping power through violence, by whipping up ethnic hatred, by promoting the concept of ethnically clean societies. |
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▸ ethnically cleanse v.compare Serbian and Croatian etnički očistiti (for the second element see cleanse v.) trans. to purge (a geographical area, a society, etc.) of ethnic or religious minority groups; to remove (people of an ethnic or religious minority) from an area, society, etc., esp. by expulsion or killing.
| 1992 Philadelphia Inquirer 29 May a1/4 Germany..has shown a hard heart to the war's main victims—the Slavic Muslims who are being driven from their homes as the Serbs *ethnically cleanse wide swatches of the countryside. 1993 Guardian 23 Oct. 5/2 Ian Paisley accused the Irish Republic of ethnically cleansing its Protestant community. 2000 D. Mosler & R. Catley Global Amer. iv. 90 Any threat to Israel's survival has been reduced, but at the cost of allowing Israel to escape other liberal dictates, ethnically cleanse Palestinians, and periodically wage aggressive preemptive war against Arab neighbours. |
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▸ ethnically cleansed adj.compare Serbian and Croatian etnički očišćen, in the second element past participle of očistiti: see cleanse v. (of a geographical area, a society, etc.) purged of ethnic or religious minority groups; (of members of a religious or ethnic minority) subjected to ethnic cleansing.
| 1991 Los Angeles Times 5 Dec. b6/2 Serbian families are bused in by the hundreds to repopulate the *ethnically cleansed areas. 1995 Newsweek 31 July 23/2 Later in the summer, press revelations that the Serbs are running concentration camps for ‘ethnically cleansed’ Bosnians elicit outrage—but no new response from the West. 2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 26 Nov. 118/3 In 1994, he was mayor of an ethnically cleansed Bosnian town called Vlasenica, where more than 18,000 Muslims had lived. |