Meaning of samurainess | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or characteristic of being a samurai.

uncommon, uncountable

Examples

“the present worker-company bond is therefore to be seen as a contrived rather than a cultural or hereditary "samurainess." There is also much in the political domain to remind one of the samurai era.”

“Which is absent from Mishima's samurainess. The purity in his work does go hand in hand with selflessness, but this as oblivion of the ego rather than self-effacement.”

“Freed of the feudal baggage of the samurai caste system, the outlaw ronin fumbles towards a samurainess (if so grotesque a neologism can be borne) not restricted to or built on any […]”

“From a Japanese point of view, the notion of a black Samurai [...] calls into question the meaning of Japaneseness [...]. From an African American perspective, the "samurainess" of Afro may provide him with the irresistible odds needed to fight the world. From a different, perhaps global, perspective, the fusion of a samurai and an African American in a transcultural production[…]”

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