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Americaness en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /əˈmɛɹɪkənəs/ (UK)
- /əˈmɛɹəkənəs/ (US)
Etymology
From American + -ness or America + -ness.
Meanings
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(form-of, rare, uncountable) Rare form of Americanness.
The necessity of race to Americaness continued through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and remains central to our identity today: […]
2008, Patrick B. Mullen, The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 8:Although cultural pride in baseball seems to stem from its Americaness, cultural pride in football seems linked to the sport's manly qualities […]
2005, Sarah K. Fields, Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America, University of Illinois Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 47:There was support for the United States' involvement in Vietnam, though in Lawrence such support expressed a particular brand of patriotism, an Americaness drawn from the past.
2002, Rusty L. Monhollon, "This Is America?:" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas, Palgrave, →ISBN, page 125:
Americaness en · NOUN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
- /əˈmɛɹɪkənəs/ (UK)
- /əˈmɛɹəkənəs/ (US)
Etymology
From American + -ess.
Meanings
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(rare) A female American.
2017 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught
Between me and the picture of Denise— mostly the portrait—they'll be thinking 'Americans.' Well, Americanesses.
This woman is like most Americanesses - she hates walking.
1889 Americanisms (quoting Hallberger's Illustrated Magazine, date unknown)There was, at the Leek, in the way of literature, aBradshaw, a work (selling sixty thousand daily, it said) of one of those Americanesses who have struggled in at the gate of the heaven of popularity before it could be shut after Mrs. Beecher Stowe
1856, Household Words, volume 35:With such expectations, then, every true American and Americaness was expected to be at his or her post, for the solemn occasion.
1839, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found, page 93:2007 1634: The Baltic War
But this office was reputedly run by Americanesses, and the stories about them were enough to make any sane man pause. Incredible women, by all accounts
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Asianess · Africaness · Europeaness