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Germanicity en · NOUN

Etymology

From Germanic + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being Germanic.
    • I should have liked to say a few words on your objection to my idea about the Germanicity of Protestantism. 1910, Gobineaus Rassenwerk, page 205:
    • [...] the Germanicity of the language of the Franks. 1994, History of Linguistics, page 64:
    • [...] the Germanicity of the region. 2002, Baltisch-deutsche Sprachen und Kulturenkontakte, page 95:
    • The Germanicity of the Baltic Sea consisted in the very fact that it never belonged exclusively to one people — not even to one Germanic people — but rather was historically constitutive as an intra-Germanic fighting space. 2004, Perceptions of Loss, Decline and Doom in the Baltic Sea Region, page 156:
    • [...] of Germanicity, and hence Scotland must be Germanic to be civilised. 2019, The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Englightenment, page 256:

Relateds

Germanness

Translations (1)

fr germanicité (Translations)