Anglophilia
Americannoun
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Anglophilia typically doesn’t survive repeated exposure to England.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2022
That should have been a clue to the extent of her Anglophilia, I now realize, along with her emphatic insistence that her children "speak the Queen's English" whenever we'd lapse into slang.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2020
Anglophilia constitutes a major subset of escapist entertainment, and one to which, I confess, I am particularly susceptible.
From Slate ● May 22, 2020
Having come down with an acute case of quarantine Anglophilia — I’ve read P.G.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2020
Chacko said that going to see The Sound of Music was an extended exercise in Anglophilia.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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