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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