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Saxonism
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English
Etymology
From en Saxon ism.
Noun
A word or phrase of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.
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 .
en The quest for Saxonisms is an unrealizable nationalistic dream. 111 The English Language Robert Burchfield Robert Burchfield Oxford University Press Oxford 1985
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