noun
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a German idiom, custom, or characteristic
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German society or civilization
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Origin of Teutonism
Example Sentences
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If there was any treaty binding Britain to Teutonism it is, to say the least of it, a lost scrap of paper: almost what one might call a scrap of waste-paper.
From The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
The narrowness of Schlegelian criticism was only the excess of Teutonism reacting against the previous excesses of Gallic classicism.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
One of the striking expressions of this Teutonism is presented by the language in which the Anglo-Saxon laws were written.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various
If there was any treaty binding Britain to Teutonism it is, to say the least of it, a lost scrap of paper; almost what one would call a scrap of waste-paper.
From The Barbarism of Berlin by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Calvinism was a mistake, and Capitalism was a mistake, and Teutonism and the flattery of the Northern tribes were mistakes.
From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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