xenomania

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English, unadulterated by xenomania and unweakened by purism, as Daniel.

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  1. A mania for foreign persons or things. Even in his own day it was doubted whether he had not over weighted himself with his choice of historical subjects, though the epithet of “well-languaged,” given to him at the time, evinces a real comprehension of one of his best claims to attention. No writer of the period has such a command of pure English, unadulterated by xenomania and unweakened by purism, as Daniel. G. Saintsbury, Hist. Elizabethan Lit., p. 136.

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  • I doubt 5 whole tracks from xenomania will make the cut.
  • Since she worked with xenomania for the Alesh show we could still have ended up with TBDN etc, had she not been dropped.
  • As good old xenomania do like to recycle songs, look how many "older" or unreleased tracks (ie Moonbaby, Mania, Lene, Alexis Strum ect) keep seeming to pop up on newer artists albums or Girls Aloud ones!!
  • I wonder how much crow Keisha has to eat now that they're going back into the "pop" style. do you want them to work with xenomania again?
  • English, unadulterated by xenomania and unweakened by purism, as Daniel. —  A History of Elizabethan Literature
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  1. New Latin, from Greek ξένος, a stranger, + -mania.
 

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