单词 | anglomaniac |
释义 | Anglomaniacn. A partisan or admirer of England (or Britain), esp. one considered extreme or excessive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [noun] > England > excessive > person Anglomane1782 Anglomaniac1795 Anglomanist1808 1795 Times 9 July 2/6 All of you, Republicans, Anglomaniacs of 1789, Constitutionalists of 1791, all would be proscribed..by the avengers of the ancient Royal Despotism. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. ii. 99 There is not a dwarf jokei..or Anglomaniac horseman rising on his stirrups, that does not betoken change. 1882 Society 30 Dec. 5/2 [These terms] intersperse every Anglomaniac's conversation. 1915 Times 5 Mar. 9/3 They [sc. the English] have, in fact, an art of life which Anglo-maniacs try to imitate, even when their other arts seem contemptible. 1940 H. L. Mencken Diary 13 Nov. (1989) 149 Virtually all of the men who have served as London correspondents are now conscientious Anglomaniacs. 1990 R. Critchfield Among British iv. 253 People who review books in the United States are very Anglophile. They're Anglomaniacs really. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1795 |
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