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Saxonist|ˈsæksənɪst|
[f. Saxon + -ist.]
a. A Saxon scholar; one learned in Anglo-Saxon.
1599Thynne Animadv. (1875) 31 Vnleste a manne be a good saxoniste, frenche, and Italyane linguiste. 1770Archæologia I. Introd. 25 Mr. Elstob the Saxonist. 1812J. Nichols Lit. Anecd. 18th C. IV. 123 This ingenious Saxonist. 1847Blackw. Mag. LXI. 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 1 b.
1926Fowler 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. 1934J. J. Hogan Outl. Eng. Philol. ii. vii. 68 The Saxonists failed with wheelman ‘cyclist’. |