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Meaning of Saxonism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A word or phrase of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.

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 .”
“The quest for Saxonisms is an unrealizable nationalistic dream.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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