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Nordic

adjective

Of or relating to or constituting the Scandinavian group of languages.

Relating to Germany and Scandinavia.

Resembling peoples of Scandinavia.

noun

The northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland. Synonyms: Norse, North Germanic, North Germanic language, Scandinavian, Scandinavian language.

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"Nordic" Quotes from Famous Books

... incapable of precise measurement, are likewise of great importance. And it is the common opinion that the Negro differs in such traits even more than in intellect proper. He is said to be lacking in that aggressive competitiveness which has been responsible for so much of the achievement of the Nordic race; it is alleged that his sexual impulses are strongly developed and inhibitions lacking; that he has "an instability of character, involving a lack of foresight, an improvidence, a lack of persistence, ...

— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

... the germs of most of the evils which beset the institution in Christendom, and particularly in the United States, where sentiment is always carried to inordinate lengths. Having abandoned the mediaeval concept of woman as temptress the men of the Nordic race have revived the correlative mediaeval concept of woman as angel and to bolster up that character they have create for her a vast and growing mass of immunities culminating of late years in the astounding doctrine that, under the contract of marriage, all the duties lie upon the man and all ...

— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken