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单词 anglo-saxondom
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Anglo-Saxondomn.

Brit. /ˌaŋɡləʊˈsaksndəm/, U.S. /ˌæŋɡloʊˈsæksəndəm/
Forms: also with lower-case initial in the second element.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Anglo-Saxon adj., -dom suffix.
Etymology: < either Anglo-Saxon adj. or Anglo-Saxon n. + -dom suffix. Compare earlier Anglo-Saxony n.
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.
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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.
2. England before the Norman Conquest; Anglo-Saxon England. Obsolete. rare.
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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).
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