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Saxonisms

Saxonisms is the plural of Saxonism.

Meaning of Saxonism

Noun

Saxonism (plural Saxonisms)

  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

Questions about Saxonisms

What is Saxonisms the plural of?
Saxonisms is the plural of Saxonism.

Words near Saxonisms in the dictionary

  1. Saxonised
  2. Saxonises
  3. Saxonish
  4. Saxonising
  5. Saxonism
  6. Saxonisms
  7. Saxonist
  8. Saxonists
  9. saxonite
  10. saxonites
  11. Saxonization

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