Lascasian

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or resembling Bartolomé de las Casas.

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adjectiveLascasian (comparative more Lascasian, superlative most Lascasian)

comparative more Lascasian · superlative most Lascasian

  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling Bartolomé de las Casas.
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    Bartolomé de las Casas is a seminal figure of early Latin American colonial history and literature. Generations of scholars have discovered and rediscovered his historical significance and literary value, as well as his philosophical contribution and theological importance. Indeed, Lascasian scholarship has greatly developed over the last two centuries as specialists have engaged his prodigious corpus of writings.

    2019, David Thomas Orique and Rady Roldán-Figueroa, “Introduction: Three Waves of Lascasian Scholarship”, in Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion, page 1

Origin

From Las Casas + -ian, after Bartolomé de las Casas.

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Lascasian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lascasian

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