Afrikanerdom

English

Etymology

Afrikaner +‎ -dom

Noun

Afrikanerdom (uncountable)

  1. The world or sphere of Afrikaners.
    • 1980, T. Dunbar Moodie, The rise of Afrikanerdom: power, apartheid, and the Afrikaner civil religion:
      He rules sovereign over the world and works His will in the affairs of nations — most visibly of Afrikanerdom.
    • 2006, Chris Brink, No lesser place: the taaldebat at Stellenbosch:
      Afrikanerdom is being repositioned as an endangered minority within a liberal democracy. From a strategic point of view this must be judged a good move.
    • 2009, John Simpson, Not Quite World's End: A Traveller's Tales, page 197:
      Yet as with the American South, there is a distinctly caricaturable quality to rural Afrikanerdom, and the sophisticated Afrikaners of Johannesburg and Cape Town enjoy making fun of them.
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