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Anglo-ˈSaxondom
[f. prec. + -dom; cf. Christendom.]
The Anglo-Saxon domain or community; the collective body of Anglo-Saxons, the Anglo-Saxon race viewed as a whole; a rhetorical phrase for Great Britain and the United States.
1850Lyell Let. in Life II. 168 A regard for the sacredness of truth is not a rare exception to the rule in Anglo-Saxondom at least. 1872Daily News 25 Mar., Anglo-Saxondom is to have a wrangle royal at Geneva. 1881Brewer Eng. Stud. 63 For the strictly orthodox spelling of Cuthberht he gives Cuthbert, not known in Anglo-Saxondom. |