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Americanism|əˈmɛrɪkəˌnɪz(ə)m|
[f. American a. and n. + -ism.]
1. Attachment to, or political sympathy with, the United States.
1797Jefferson Let. 24 June in Wks. (1854) IV. 190 The dictates of reason and pure Americanism. 1808― Writ. (1830) IV. 114, I knew your Americanism too well. 1853M. Howitt tr. Bremer's Homes N. World I. 160 What constitutes noble republicanism and Americanism. 1861H. Kingsley Ravenshoe xlii, The leaven of Americanism and European Radicalism.
2. Any thing peculiar to, or characteristic of, the United States.
1833Edin. Rev. LVII. 451 The existence of some peculiar Americanism of character, and even language. 1870Emerson Soc. & Sol. ii. 232, I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 2 Feb. 75/1 The spread of American influence and domination abroad, known as ‘Americanism’. 1926D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serp. ii. 46 Americanism is the worst of the two, because Bolshevism only smashes your house or your business or your skull, but Americanism smashes your soul. 1966Listener 3 Nov. 644/2 There is already a generation of Englishmen who think of tinned beer as a normal part of life, and not any longer as a hideous Americanism.
3. esp. A word or phrase peculiar to, or extending from, the United States; (the common, and app. earliest, use of the word in Great Britain.)
1781Witherspoon in Pennsylvania Jrnl. No. 1391. 1/2 The first class I call Americanisms, by which I understand an use of phrases or terms, or a construction of sentences, even among persons of rank and education, different from the use of the same terms or phrases, or the construction of similar sentences, in Great Britain. The word Americanism, which I have coined for the purpose, is exactly similar in its formation and signification to the word Scotticism. 1826Miss Mitford Our Village Ser. ii. (1863) 352 Society has been progressing (if I may borrow that expressive Americanism) at a very rapid rate. 1833Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) III. 470 There are many Americanisms which in the course of time will work their way into the language of England. 1891Daily News 26 June 5/2 Americanisms are modes of expression which vary from the standard of good English, and which are either peculiar to America, or chiefly prevalent there. 1936Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 4) i. i. 12 The period from the gathering of the Revolution to the turn of the century was one of immense activity in the concoction and launching of new Americanisms, and more of them came into the language than at any time between the earliest colonial days and the rush to the West. 1955Times 6 June 7/4, I suspect that ‘Mr. Mayor’ is an Americanism and as applied to females it is obviously incorrect. |