Germanhoodn.
/ˈdʒəːmənhʊd/, U.S. /ˈdʒərmənˌ(h)ʊd/ The quality, state, or fact of being German; German culture.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [noun] > state of being
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1827 T. Carlyle German Romance I. Pref. p. xii They are German Novelists, not English ones; and their Germanhood I have all along regarded as a quality, not as a fault.
1871 Macmillan's Mag. 24 231 Miraculous Bismarck, appointed by the Reichstag to a seemingly irresponsible dictatorship over Alsace and Lorraine, was reported to be regenerating these provinces into a Germanhood which was almost enthusiastic.
1935 Charleroi (Pa.) Mail 2 Apr. 1/3 The Nazi press called upon Max Schmelling and Walter Neusel, Germany's two leading heavyweight fighters, to fire their ‘Jewish managers in the interests of Germanhood’.
1940 Polit. Sci. Q. 55 389 They, the Germans, will restore the Alsatians to their Germanhood even against their deluded protests that they prefer French civilization and French political life.
1967 F. L. Carsten Rise of Fascism i. 31 Und es mag am deutschen Wesen Einmal noch die Welt genesen. (Roughly, ‘Germanhood one day may heal the whole world’.)
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 May 44/1 German writers were speaking of unser Shakespeare—our Shakespeare—by which term they were not claiming Germanhood for Shakespeare, but recognizing that his influence was beginning to transcend all national boundaries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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