Anglo-Saxonism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Anglo-Saxonism
First recorded in 1855–60; Anglo-Saxon + -ism
Example Sentences
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Anglo-Saxonism is a very good thing; simplicity and common sense are very good things too.
From Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
In America and in Australia a new modification of what we call Anglo-Saxonism is growing.
From Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society by Bagehot, Walter
A is an Anglo-Saxonism for in or on; as a'board, a'going, &c.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Now, I do not think that it can be honestly denied that some portion of this impossibility attaches to a class very different in their own opinion, at least, to the school of Anglo-Saxonism.
From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
With due allowance for her Anglo-Saxonism and honesty, she was the type of woman to whom “things happen.”
From The Dust Flower by Kline, Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren)
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