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noun
Saxonism  n.  An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... less in England than in America. It represents an historical and political, not an ethnological, concept. The Anglo-Saxon was already an infinitely composite personage—Saxon, Scandinavian, Gaul, and Kelt—before he set foot in America; and America merely proves her deep-rooted Anglo-Saxonism in accepting and absorbing all sorts of alien and semi-alien race-elements. But when we have to go so far behind the face-value of a word to bring it into consonance with obvious facts, it is safest to ...
— America To-day, Observations and Reflections • William Archer



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