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Teutonism|ˈtjuːtənɪz(ə)m| [f. Teuton + -ism.] 1. An idiom or mode of expression peculiar to or characteristic of the Teutonic languages, esp. of German; a Germanism.
[1619Kepler Harmonia Mundi iv. v. in Opera (1864) V. 234 Idem quod vultus, facies; quod etiam noster Teutonismus habet, qui faciem solet nominare das Angesicht.] 1889L.E. & D. Philos. Mag. Nov. 425 The translator has done his part of the work well, although we detect distinct Teutonisms here and there. 2. Teutonic or Germanic character, type, constitution, system, or spirit; German feeling and action (either in the wider ethnical or the restricted national or political sense).
1854Milman Lat. Chr. iii. vii. (1864) II. 101 Teutonic Europe, or Europe so deeply interpenetrated with Teutonism. 1881Atlantic Monthly XLVII. 230 During most of classic antiquity the centre of Teutonism seems to have been farther east than Germany. 1900A. Lang in Blackw. Mag. Apr. 543/2 He regrets the Norman Conquest as an interference with unmixed Teutonism. |