单词 | saxonism |
释义 | Saxonismn. 1. a. An Anglo-Saxon idiom or expression; Anglo-Saxon characteristics in speech. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > idiom of Anglicism1642 Saxonism1774 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. ii. 49 The language [of Robert of Gloucester]..is full of Saxonisms. 1845 J. M. Kemble in Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 121 How often have we not heard it asserted that particular districts were remarkable for the Saxonism of their speech, because they had retained the archaisms, kine, shoon, housen! 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick III. i. 10 Many other sinewy Saxonisms of this sort. b. The doctrine or practice of employing English words of purely Anglo-Saxon derivation in preference to words of foreign origin. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > promotion of Saxonism1926 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 514/2 Saxonism is a name for the attempt to raise the proportion borne by the originally & etymologically English words in our speech to those that come from alien sources. 1952 W. D. Jacobs William Barnes, Linguist ii. 45 If Latinism had its failings, Saxonism manifested great excellences. 2. The characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon race; attachment to what is Anglo-Saxon. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > race theory > belief in white supremacy Anglo-Saxonism1844 manifest destiny1845 Saxonism1884 Nordicism1925 white chauvinism1928 white racism1943 1884 H. D. Traill in Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 443 Please to remember in abatement of your pride of Saxonism, that its moral association is not inherited but acquired. a1894 C. H. Pearson in Stebbing Mem. (1900) 92 The extravagant Saxonism of the present school [of historians]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1774 |
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