Saxonism
Saxonism noun: a word or phrase of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.
Noun
Saxonism (plural Saxonisms)
- 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
Forms of Saxonism
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Origin of Saxonism
From Saxon + -ism.
Questions about Saxonism
- What does Saxonism mean?
- Saxonism means a word or phrase of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.
- What part of speech is Saxonism?
- Saxonism is a noun.
- What is the plural of Saxonism?
- The plural of Saxonism is Saxonisms.
Words near Saxonism in the dictionary
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