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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