minoritarian

From minority +‎ -arian.

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minoritarian (comparative more minoritarian, superlative most minoritarian)

1. of, or related to minoritarianism
   • 1987, Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, page 456:

     And the birth of nations implies many artifices: Not only are they constituted in an active struggle against the imperial or evolved systems, the feudal systems, and the autonomous cities, but they crush their own "minorities," in other words, minoritarian phenomena that could be termed "nationalitarian," which work from within and if need be turn to the old codes to find a greater degree of freedom.

   • 2012, Alan T. Levenson, The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism‎:

     "Other minoritarian voices were at work challenging and rethinking other dimensions of Jewishness in the United States."

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minoritarian (plural minoritarians)

1. one who is in minority
   • 2011, Frida Beckman, editor, Deleuze and Sex‎:

     "First it argues that becoming with the outside does not fetishise minoritarians, such as woman or animal."

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