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Anglicism|ˈæŋglɪsɪz(ə)m|
[f. Anglicize: see -ism.]
1. Anglicized language, such as the introduction of English idiom into a sentence in another language; hence, a peculiarity of the English language, an idiom specially English.
1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 65 An odde kind of Anglicisme..as to say Your Boores of Holland, Sir; Your Iesuites of Spaine, Sir. 1679Dryden Tr. & Cr. Ep. Ded. Wks. 1725 V. 11 False Grammar, and Nonsense couch'd beneath that specious Name of Anglicisme. 1699Bentley Phal. §xi. 318 Dr. B. has abundance of pure Anglicisms in his Latin. 1755T. H. Croker Ariosto's Orl. Fur. Pref. 8 Low familiar anglicism, quite inconsistent with the dignity of the divine original. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. iv. vii. §37. 319 The anglicism of terminating the sentence with a preposition.
2. An English characteristic or fashion; English character, the quality of being English; also, imitation of or support for what is English.
1781Johnson Lives Eng. Poets II. 86 If his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. 1787Beckford Italy II. 90 The short jacket of the postilion and other anglicisms of the equipage. 1810Jefferson Writ. XII. 373 The Anglicism of 1808..is a longing for a King, and an English King rather than any other. 1818M. Boucher Let. 1 Oct. in Lady Morgan Memoirs (1862) 146 Frenchmen..have adopted the opposite mania of Anglicism, down to the most trifling fashions. 1827Lamb in Hone Table Bk. I. 302/1 Christianism; and true hearty Anglicism of feelings, shaping that Christianism; shine throughout his beautiful writings. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXIX. 519 Among other allegorical emblems of nations, as the representative and express image of Anglicism, he drew a naked man. 1871Lowell Study Windows iii. 62 She [sc. England] has a conviction that whatever good there is in us is wholly English, when the truth is that we are worth nothing except so far as we have disinfected ourselves of Anglicism. 1876Dublin Rev. July 103 Mr. Carlyle, whom nobody will suspect either of narrow Anglicism or of unreasoning antipathy to other nations.
3. English political principles or methods of administration.
1873Gladstone in Daily News 20 Aug. 2/2 The most unfortunate policy which sent Englishmen into the country for every purpose of civil as well as of religious life..to propagate what I may call Anglicism in the teeth of the feelings of the country. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 185 Those elements of political Anglicism. |