pan-Teutonicadj.
/ˌpantjuːˈtɒnɪk/, /ˌpantʃuːˈtɒnɪk/, U.S. /ˌpænt(j)uˈtɑnɪk/ Now rare (chiefly historical).
Of or including all the Germanic peoples; advocating pan-Teutonism.Postpositive in quot. 1863.
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Teutonic1619
Gothic1647
Germanic1687
pan-Germanic1850
pan-German1862
pan-Teutonic1863
pan-Gothic1879
Gothonic1912
1863 Express (Dublin) 24 Aug. 2/4 The Confederacy has been doomed, though the Empire Pan-Teutonic and indivisible has not yet risen on its ruins.
1876 Fortn. Rev. Dec. 801 Just such irresponsible talk one may hear from Germans about the necessity of annexing Holland, or even of gathering England and Scandinavia into the great Pan-Teutonic Empire.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 12 Nov. 5/1 The Organ of the Pan-Teutonic League.
1923 Jrnl. Brit. Instit. Internat. Affairs 2 46 He considered it was influenced both from Holland and from Germany, and was a serious phase of a Pan-Teutonic movement.
1933 Science 19 May 492/2 This is the achievement of a movement which, ever since the war, has sought to mould the German people to one pan-Teutonic pattern—in accord with neither the facts nor the conclusions of ethnology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1863