OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
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By the beginning of the 16th century, the Christian Islamophobia and prejudice had spread to each country of Europe. As this quotation illustrates, it even was institutionalized to language.
This quotation illustrates the extreme cultural chauvinism of which the English were capable. This definition was not the primary definition but it was one of the popular English uses of the word. The French had a similar linguistic egocentrism.
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