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noun

Anglo-Saxonism n.

A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.

The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... ideals—Comte's "Western Republic" (1848) was the first Utopia that involved the synthesis of numerous States—by the development of "Imperialisms" in the place of national policies, and by the search for a basis for wider political unions in racial traditions and linguistic affinities. Anglo-Saxonism, Pan-Germanism, and the like are such synthetic ideas. Until the eighties, the general tendency of progressive thought was at one with the older Christian tradition which ignored "race," and the aim of the expansive liberalism movement, so far as it had a clear aim, was to ...

— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

... old hierarchies will be banded with him to crush out Protestantism, which is a plant of Teutonic growth. Old Asia, with her rancor and despotic traditions, recognizes in the Russian imperial rule a congenial rallying-point against the progressive and hated Anglo-Saxonism and Protestantism of the West. A decisive struggle is surely impending between freedom and absolutism, between the bigoted adherents of the old faiths and the nations that have cut loose from them. Perhaps this struggle may be prefigured ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various