Anglo-Saxonistn.

1837 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 493 Gibson edited that valuable and interesting historical document, the Saxon Chronicle; Rawlinson published Alfred's translation of Boethius... These names..belong to the school of the Anglo-Saxonists.

1896 S. H. V. Gurteen Epic of Fall of Man 21 There will arise many a fine Anglo-Saxonist to carry on the work begun by Turner, Thorpe, and Kemble.

1934 Rev. Eng. Stud. 10 244 [He] has materially added to the convenience of Anglo-Saxonists, and it may..be predicted that his Altenglisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch will..be widely used and valued.

1991 Guardian (Nexis) 18 July The Anglo-Saxonists..were defeated when they proposed that the Old English examination should be made harder.

2004 Christianity & Lit. (Nexis) 22 June 541 Sanctity in the writing of early England between 597 A.D. and the Norman Conquest of 1066, a field mostly familiar to Anglo-Saxonists.

1879 J. A. Weisse Origin Eng. Lang. & Lit. 672 In the face of this constant and steady increase, Anglo-Saxonists clamored in vain against the addition of foreign words.

1890 Cent. Mag. June 295/2 The ruthless acts of Cromwell, that Englishman with a Keltic name whom the Anglo-Saxonists of the present day would have us believe a typical Saxon.

1955 J. Higham Strangers in Land vi. 145 Every Anglo-Saxonist knew that the United States was taking up ‘the white man's burden’ in extending American control over the darkskinned natives... The Anglo-Saxon idea easily associated itself with emotions of white supremacy.

2004 E. P. Kohn This Kindred People 10 Clearly French Canadians were not Anglo-Saxonists. Yet the rhetoric of Anglo-Saxon superiority had penetrated the French-speaking world.