Saxonism

American  

[sak-suh-niz-uhm] / ˈsæk səˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. an English word or idiom of Anglo-Saxon rather than foreign, as Latin or French, origin.

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Etymology

Origin of Saxonism

First recorded in 1765–75; Saxon + -ism

Example Sentences

Such was its original design, but the tendencies of Saxonism, Turn'd it more to eating and drinking, than devotional remembrance.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard

Street cars at this time were comparatively new in Philadelphia, and I think we reached the last extremity of Saxonism in speech when we spoke of them as "folk wains."

From Confessions of a Book-Lover by Egan, Maurice Francis

One part of England is more evidently Saxon than another; at least, it bears certain outward and visible signs of Saxonism which are wanting elsewhere.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

This Saxonism of style is in marked contrast with Scott, who employs without question the highly latinised English which his age had inherited from the last.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)