Saxonism

Sax·on·ism

[sak-suh-niz-uhm]
noun
an English word or idiom of Anglo-Saxon rather than foreign, as Latin or French, origin.
Also called Anglo-Saxonism.


Origin:
1765–75; Saxon + -ism

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