Meaning of Anglo-Saxony | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The geographical or cultural realm of Anglo-Saxons (people of English ethnic descent); Anglo-Saxons collectively.
2. The geographical or cultural realm of Anglo-Saxons (members of the Germanic peoples who settled in England during the early fifth century); Anglo-Saxons collectively.
   historical, rare

Examples

“Our Constitution nourished twins. It carried Africa on its left bosom, and Anglo-Saxony on its right bosom; and these two, drawing milk from the same bosom, have waxed strong, and stand to-day federated into the one republic.”

“Nothing draws like the naughty. Now, the Cercle ball is supposed to be the naughtiest of the “respectable” masked balls during the season. Hence Anglo-Saxony invested in the Cercle ball last year to the clear profit of $6,000. Arithmetical persons with keen faces, who hovered near the box-office last night, maintained that Anglo-Saxony was done for $10,000 this year.”

“By the middle of the century, J[ohn] M[itchell] Kemble’s bestselling work The Saxons in England (1849) had acquainted a wide public with the trend in German and English scholarship, which was to seek an antique model for a common racial heritage in the concept of Anglo-Saxony. […] Anglo-Saxony and queenship were seen as complementary, and the cult of Anglo-Saxony as confirming England’s right to lead (and own) most of the world. […] By the mid-century Judith had acquired a role as a national identity, Englishness, and as an international ethnicity, Anglo-Saxony, which was in implicit opposition to her other incarnation as Romantic Criminal. […] In sharp contrast to the antisemitic Germanic psychological tradition, the ideology of Anglo-Saxony exalted Judith as one of its models of distinctive national character.”

“To conclude the observations relative to Anglo-Saxony, it may be observed that, the principal part of its territory, when most extended, is now included in the dominions of Prussia; […]”

“As to the strife itself, it appears to have lain between equal forces, as far as we can now conjecture. The south-west of Scotland was then probably an ally of Kenneth, as being of the same race. All the south-east was Anglo-Saxony.”

“Vikings were considered of inferior racial specimen during the Nordic atempts to civilise British Anglo-Saxony.”

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