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Germanism|ˈdʒɜːmənɪz(ə)m|
[f. German a.2 + -ism. Cf. F. Germanisme.]
1. An idiom or mode of expression peculiar to the German language; esp. one used by a speaker or writer in some other language.
1611Coryat Crudities 39 After I had duly considered this prety Germanisme. a1773Chesterfield (T.), It is full of Latinisms, Gallicisms, Germanisms, and all isms but Anglicisms. 1832Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) II. 2 Besides, it [the ‘Tour of a German Prince’] lacks Germanity; the Germanisms in the whole are not greater than might be collected in a three years' residence. 1853E. S. Sheppard Ch. Auchester I. 324 The mere Germanisms of the novel rests and signs appalled me. 1892Nation (N.Y.) 26 May 401/1 Many-jointed Germanisms stretch their unwieldy length and sprawl over every page.
2. a. German ideas; German modes of thought or action. b. Attachment to German ideas or institutions.
1841Blackw. Mag. L. 154 Thou art alone practical, and despisest idealism, and mysticism, and Germanism. 1864Daily Tel. 11 May, The advance of Germanism, as it was styled, was retarded, if not checked. 1884Jrnl. Educ. XIX. 24 What our country needs of Germanism in education is the profound, accurate, broad, and genial habits.
3. Affectation of what is German; a disposition to adopt German modes of thought or expression.
1807W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. V. 507 A something of Germanism clings about the style of these two first cantos. 1845J. H. Newman Developm. Chr. Doctr. 71 The same philosophical elements, received into a certain sensibility or insensibility to sin, and its consequences, leads [sic] one mind to the Church of Rome; another to what, for want of a better word, may be called Germanism. 1857Church Let. 26 Jan. in Life (1894) 149 How very much without real knowledge has been a great deal of the broad abuse of Germanism that goes on. |