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Saxonism|ˈsæksənɪz(ə)m|
[f. Saxon + -ism.]
1. a. An Anglo-Saxon idiom or expression; Anglo-Saxon characteristics in speech.
1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. ii. 49 The language [of Robert of Gloucester]..is full of Saxonisms. 1845Kemble in Proc. Philol. Soc. II. 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! 1851H. Melville Whale III. i. 10 note, 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.
1926Fowler 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. 1952W. 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.
1884H. D. Traill in Macm. Mag. Oct. 443 Please to remember in abatement of your pride of Saxonism, that its moral association is not inherited but acquired. a1894C. H. Pearson in Stebbing Mem. (1900) 92 The extravagant Saxonism of the present school [of historians]. |