Englishnessn.
/ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lᵻʃnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃnᵻs/ The quality or state of being English or of embodying English characteristics.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > state or fact of being
Englishry1607
Englishness1804
Anglicity1823
John Bullishness1895
1804 W. Taylor Let. 6 July in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 512 Manuscripts,..in the British Museum, were adduced as vouchers for the Englishness of several fairy-tales supposed to be French.
1838 New Monthly Mag. 53 118 The Englishness of everything about man, woman, and child born in the island.
1884 Athenæum 19 Jan. 93/3 The attraction of the face of the Hon. G. Seymour Conway..lies in its Englishness.
1957 M. Spark Comforters ix. 191 ‘Willi always has been eccentric,’ Helena remarked. ‘Part of his cultivated Englishness,’ said Laurence.
1997 A. Barnett This Time ix. 293 The two sides of the identity are that Englishness looks inward towards the countryside and Britishness looks outwards across the sea.
2006 J. Briggs Reading V. Woolf xiii. 190 We aspire to be a multi-racial, multi-cultural society, for whom the concept of ‘Englishness’ is at best an empty myth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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