Anglo-Saxonism

[ ang-gloh-sak-suh-niz-uhm ]

noun

1. Saxonism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Anglo-Saxonism¹

First recorded in 1855–60; Anglo-Saxon + -ism

Example Sentences

As a modern electoral strategy, Anglo-Saxonism falls somewhat short.

From Los Angeles Times

The nativism that rallied at the border under Bush, and that for eight years was expressed in an almost psychotropic hatred of Obama, crystallised into what some have described as “race realism”: a rejection of the legitimating premises of the liberal multilateral order – especially the idea that all could sit at the table and enjoy the world’s abundance, that the global economy should be organised around lines as open as possible, and that diversity rather than, say, Anglo-Saxonism, could serve as the foundation of political communities.

From The Guardian

They are the sort of thing that doesn't work in at all to what now most interests me: which is human Anglo-Saxonism, with the American extension, or opportunity for it, so far as it may be given me still to work the same.

From Project Gutenberg

He pretends that there is no difference between Anglo-Saxonism and Germanism.

From Project Gutenberg

Blind, prejudiced, as they were, meekly pandering to pan-Germanism which they considered as the best antidote to the Anglo-Saxonism they abhor, they could not understand that the Lusitania horror, the slaughtering of hundreds of American citizens in violation of all the principles of International Law, the crimes of the Teutonic submarine campaign more than justified the intervention of the United States in the war.

From Project Gutenberg