单词 | anglo-saxondom |
释义 | Anglo-Saxondomn. 1. People of European (esp. English or British) heritage or descent considered collectively; the English-speaking world, its civilization, culture, etc. Cf. Anglo-Saxon n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > ethnically English people > [noun] Englishry1439 Anglo-Saxony1818 Anglo-Saxondom1845 1845 Littell's Living Age 23 Aug. 345/1 That they [sc. emigrants] will flow down into California, and extend Anglo-Saxondom all along the Pacific, is very certain. 1850 C. Lyell Let. in Life, Lett. & Jrnls. (1881) II. 168 A regard for the sacredness of truth is not a rare exception to the rule in Anglo-Saxondom at least. 1872 Daily News 25 Mar. Anglo-Saxondom is to have a wrangle royal at Geneva. 1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 June 407/2 It is the greatest blot on the face of Anglo-Saxondom that it has never been able to support a review devoted entirely to the Arts. 1965 Compar. Lit. 17 67 Mann does not merely refer in broad terms to the virility and robustness of English humor, but pin-points the grotesque as the artistic forte of ‘Anglo-Saxondom’. 1996 Observer (Nexis) 11 Oct. (Review section) 13 It contains political comedy of a kind no one else in Anglo-Saxondom is writing. ΚΠ 1881 J. S. Brewer Eng. Stud. 63 For the strictly orthodox spelling of Cuthberht he gives Cuthbert, not known in Anglo-Saxondom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1845 |
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