Ur-race

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A primitive, primordial, or original race; a proto-race

    "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."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of ur-race. alt-of, alternative

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"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."

Etymology

From ur- (“primal, original”) + race.

Related phrases

ur-racial

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