单词 | saxonist |
释义 | Saxonistn. a. A Saxon scholar; one learned in Anglo-Saxon. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > Old English > one learned in Saxonist1599 Anglo-Saxonist1837 1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 31 Vnleste a manne be a good saxoniste, frenche, and Italyane linguiste. 1770 Archaeologia 1 Introd. 25 Mr. Elstob the Saxonist. 1812 J. Nichols Lit. Anecd. 18th Cent. IV. 123 This ingenious Saxonist. 1847 Blackwood's Mag. 61 80 Mr. Thorpe, so well known as one of the very few accomplished Saxonists of whom we can boast. b. An advocate of the use of English words of purely Anglo-Saxon origin. Cf. Saxonism n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > promotion of > one who promotes Anglicist1878 Saxonist1926 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 228/1 While the plain Englishman is content that events should happen, the Saxonist..requires that there should be happenings, & the anti-Saxonist..that things should eventuate. 1934 J. J. Hogan Outl. Eng. Philol. ii. vii. 68 The Saxonists failed with wheelman ‘cyclist’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1599 |
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