Saxonism
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editSaxonism (plural Saxonisms)
- A word or phrase of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.
- 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
- 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 .
References
edit- “Saxonism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.