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Saxonism en · NOUN

Etymology

From Saxon + -ism.

Meanings

1. A word or phrase of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.
   • 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 . 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
   • The quest for Saxonisms is an unrealizable nationalistic dream. 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 111:

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