Saxonism
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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 ."
Example
More examples"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 ."
Etymology
From Saxon + -ism.
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