Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An English word, phrase, or idiom of Anglo-Saxon origin.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An idiom of the Saxon or early English language.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.

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  • noun An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.

Etymologies

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Saxon +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • And let's look at the role race has played in historical writing -- whether we are talking about the long historiography of Atlantic World slavery, colonialism and various forms of conquest; the Anglo-Saxonism and regionalism of early United States and English historians; or the efforts to locate the origins of modern nation-states in long, pre-modern pseudo-racial histories.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Tenured Radical 2008

  • Anglo-Saxonism in U.S. foreign policy: The diplomacy of imperialism, 1899-1919

    The "Mystery" of US Foreign Policy 2007

  • The proud Anglo-Saxonism of Churchill and Roosevelt now seems quaint and parochial, if not downright racist.

    Ties Of Blood And History 2007

  • People, with its grotesque insistence upon Anglo-Saxonism.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • Anglo-Saxonism in U.S. foreign policy: The diplomacy of imperialism, 1899-1919

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iran dismisses U.S. talks as ��propaganda move�� 2006

  • They are no longer masses of aliens, waiting to be 'assimilated,' waiting to be melted down into the indistinguishable dough of Anglo - Saxonism.

    Trans-national America 1969

  • Anglo-Saxonism is a very good thing; simplicity and common sense are very good things too.

    Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Various

  • But we in the Dominion of Canada speak of something called Anglo-Saxonism.

    The West and Canada's Problem 1927

  • But then there is another thing which is called Anglo-Saxonism and Anglo-Saxonism is to be found in the thrift and industry of the jutes, Angles and Saxons who established themselves in Great Britain and who passed that thrift and industry on, and who passed on that desire to build homes, to the peoples who came to settle themselves in the British Isles from time to time.

    The West and Canada's Problem 1927

  • That does not mean that 75°/0 of them are of British origin, but 53°0 of them are of British origin, and I have still sufficient faith in the good old characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon race to believe that 53 % of the people can establish firmly for all time institutions of government, literature and a language in the Province of Saskatchewan based upon Anglo-Saxonism if you like (Hear, hear).

    The West and Canada's Problem 1927

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