Anglosaxon

See also: anglosaxon, anglo-saxon, and Anglo-Saxon

English

Noun

Anglosaxon (plural Anglosaxons)

1. Rare form of Anglo-Saxon.

Adjective

Anglosaxon (comparative more Anglosaxon, superlative most Anglosaxon)

1. Rare form of Anglo-Saxon.
   • 1849, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England:

     The Anglosaxon belief in the Shieldmaidens comes to us indeed in a darkened form, yet we can hardly doubt that it survived.

   • 1869, Alexander J[ohn] Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, […], London: […] [F]or the Philological Society, by Asher & Co., London & Berlin, and for the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society, by Trübner & Co., […], title page:

     on EARLY ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION, with especial reference to SHAKSPERE AND CHAUCER, containing an investigation of the correspondence of writing with speech in england, from the anglosaxon period to the present day, […]

   • 1976, George D. Painter, William Caxton: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, published 1977:

     Working from the later, twelfth-century forms Kachestone, Cakeston, the great etymologist Skeat suggested an original Cahestun, meaning the farm of an Anglosaxon settler named Cah; […]