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- noun The quality, state or characteristic of being
English
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Examples
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I would not accept that Englishness is just another ethnicity in this coutry either but it is a changing and growing thing.
The Coconuts Of London Newmania 2007
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This new fashionability - indeed even political correctness - of militant Englishness is a consequence of the Iraq war and is what links Gromit with Pinter.
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This new fashionability - indeed even political correctness - of militant Englishness is a consequence of the Iraq war and is what links Gromit with Pinter.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Being Anglican, they felt, reinforced their 'Englishness'--turning Roman Catholic to some was almost like changing their citizenship.
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Second, the idea of Englishness is becoming stronger in popular culture.
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Hill said that the brand will continue to focus its branding on selling "Englishness" - not through overt symbols like the Union Jack, but in styles marked by an irreverent and quirky English attitude.
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Reith Lectures entitled The Englishness of English Art, Nikolaus Pevsner, Continental to his bootstraps, waxed warm on the insular charms of his subject, the product of a world of
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In few places is this truer than with Englishness, which is very much a work in progress - although, of course, all national identities are, and football is not always the most coherent way of understanding their trajectory.
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Andrew Motion is among a leading group of poets who have written a new liturgy exploring "Englishness" in a much-changed England, and are attempting to reclaim the patron saint, St George, from far-right groups such as the BNP.
Poets enlist for quest to pull St George from jaws of far right 2011
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Sexual repression is a particular kind of Englishness — an England where the rain it raineth every day beyond a retractable roof.
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