Saxonism

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English

Etymology

From Saxon +‎ -ism.

Noun

Saxonism (plural Saxonisms)

  1. A word or phrase of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.
    • 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
      The language is not much more easy or intelligible than that of many of the Norman-Saxon poems quoted in the preceding section : it is full of Saxonisms, which indeed abound , more or less , in every writer before Gower and Chaucer .
    • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 111:
      The quest for Saxonisms is an unrealizable nationalistic dream.

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