单词 | anglicity |
释义 | Anglicityn. The quality of being English; spec. Englishness of speech or style; English idiom.In later use chiefly after quot. 1884. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > state or fact of being Englishry1607 Englishness1804 Anglicity1823 John Bullishness1895 1823 Jrnl. House of Representatives Commonw. of Kentucky 7 Feb. 74 It would be questionable both as to the anglicity and sense of it, to say that lands should be determined by the laws now existing, &c. But it would be entirely proper so to speak in relation to the rights or title to the land. 1874 F. H. Laing What is Christianity? 5 If..a man of another country..should deem it sufficient to take up some sentimental notion,..which he should call ‘Anglicity’; he might indeed become an amateur Englishman. 1884 J. A. H. Murray in N.E.D. Gen. Explan. p. xvi The English vocabulary contains a nucleus or central mass of many thousand words whose ‘Anglicity’ is unquestioned. 1925 L. P. Smith Words & Idioms i. 22 Purity meaning for us homogeneity of speech, or..we may perhaps borrow from the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary the slightly less cumbrous word ‘anglicity’. 2000 H. Jackson & E. Zé Amvela Words, Meaning, & Vocab. ii. 31 They constitute a nucleus or central mass of many thousand words with an undisputed claim to ‘Anglicity’ or Englishness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1823 |
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