northernismn.
/ˈnɔːðn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˈnɔːðənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈnɔrðərnˌɪz(ə)m/ 1. The character, quality, or views of the northern part of a country or region; (in early use) spec. the political character or views of the northern part of the United States (cf. north adv. 2c).In quot. 1997: romanticization of the character of the north of England.
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [noun] > quality
northness1832
northernness1853
northernism1856
1856 J. P. Hambleton Biogr. Sketch Henry A. Wise 44 The Whig party preferred to foster, encourage, uphold and advance a Northernism untried upon Southern soil.
1863 Atlantic Monthly June 682/1 She looked as if Kentucky had sent her out..to try by herself at drum-head court-martial the whole rank and file of Northernisms, airy and intangible illusions.
1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Jan. 28/4 Anything tainted with northernism or ‘Lutheranism’ is poison for Italy.
1962 Amer. Hist. Rev. 67 941 The equation of northernism with nationalism and southernism with sectionalism prejudges by definition the question which purports to be under scrutiny.
1997 Jrnl. (Newcastle) 29 Nov. (Television section) 33 Professional northernism at its worst—old fashioned Lancashire accents, terraced houses, cobbles, and so on.
2. An idiom, form of expression, or manner of speech, etc., characteristic of northerners.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > British English > idiom of
Londonism1803
cockneyism1804
Englishism1804
Suffolkism1823
Borderism1839
Northumbrianism1845
Yorkshirism1849
Brummagism1858
southernism1920
northernism1942
1942 Speculum 17 89 (note) Since Charles was, we know, in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, it seems unnecessary to assume that his Northernisms were not acquired there.
1959 Eng. Lit. Hist. 26 301 Most obvious is the burst of uncouth Northernisms, of which the first three lines have been kept clear.
1965 H. Kökeritz in J. B. Bessinger & R. P. Creed Medieval & Linguistic Stud. 294 Notwithstanding a few seeming northernisms..there is no vestige of his father's dialect.
1989 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 41 Chaucer furnishes them [sc. two Cambridge undergraduates] with sufficient northernisms to create a parallel to Mak's southern speech in the Shepherds' Play.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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