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- noun Plural form of
Germanism .
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Examples
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Would anyone part with all the fun Germanisms and Yiddishisms in American English?
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Latinisms, Gallicisms, Germanisms, and all isms but Anglicisms; in some places pompous, in others vulgar and low.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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It is no slight merit in our eyes, that the tale, though wild in incident, is written in plan and forcible English, without exhibiting that mixture of hyperbolical Germanisms with which tales of wonder are usually told, as if it were necessary that the language should be as extravagant as the fiction.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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It is no slight merit in our eyes, that the tale, though wild in incident, is written in plan and forcible English, without exhibiting that mixture of hyperbolical Germanisms with which tales of wonder are usually told, as if it were necessary that the language should be as extravagant as the fiction.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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It is no slight merit in our eyes, that the tale, though wild in incident, is written in plan and forcible English, without exhibiting that mixture of hyperbolical Germanisms with which tales of wonder are usually told, as if it were necessary that the language should be as extravagant as the fiction.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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If it is a question of picking on Germanisms in Arndt, it is not difficult to find Russianisms in Nabokov.
The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov Wilson, Edmund 1965
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A childlike shyness, and the Germanisms of speech which he never had laid aside in his life of absorbing toil, embarrassed him much in giving expression to his ideas.
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Among these were _subjective_ and _objective_, and the concise, comprehensive Germanisms were assailed as sure evidence of treason or insanity.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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In each of these places, large or small, a few localisms might have been notedoi substituted for ur in New York, you-all in the South, a few Germanisms in Pennsylvania and in the upper Mississippi Valley, a few Spanish locutions in the Southwest, certain peculiar vowel-forms in New Englandbut in the main the report would have been identical with the report he makes.
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 2. Spoken American As It Is Henry Louis 1921
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Wagner's music is made up of very diverse styles: one finds in it Italianisms and Germanisms and even Gallicisms of every kind; there are some that are sublime, some that are commonplace; and at times one feels the awkwardness of their union and the imperfections of their form.
Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915
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