Anglo-Saxonism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Anglo-Saxonism
First recorded in 1855–60; Anglo-Saxon + -ism
Example Sentences
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As a modern electoral strategy, Anglo-Saxonism falls somewhat short.
From Los Angeles Times
They are the sort of thing that doesn't work in at all to what now most interests me: which is human Anglo-Saxonism, with the American extension, or opportunity for it, so far as it may be given me still to work the same.
From Project Gutenberg
He pretends that there is no difference between Anglo-Saxonism and Germanism.
From Project Gutenberg
With regard to the supposed conflict of "anglo-saxonism" and "pan-germanism" I will merely say that it is only another sample of Mr. Bourassa's wily dreams.
From Project Gutenberg
It remains a shining platitude that all the efforts of suave diplomatists to weld Anglo-Saxonism into a case-hardened ideal are as a potato to a sitting hen in the face of the deft strokes of irresponsible, irrepressible caricaturists and others.
From Time Magazine Archive
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