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Anglo-Saxonism

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An´glo-Sax´on`ism
n.1.A characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.
2.The quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.
Anglo-Saxonism
a belief in the innate superiority of the “Anglo-Saxon race.”
See also: Nationalism
anything characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race, especially any linguistic peculiarity that sterns from Old English and has not been affected by another language.
See also: Language
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49-50; Audrey Smedley, Race in North America: Origins and Evolution of a Worldview (Boulder, CO, 1993); Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism (Cambridge, MA, 1981); Rodney Davenport and Christopher Saunders, South Africa: A Modern History (New York, 2000), p.
The transnational contexts of early twentieth-century American urban ... by Nightingale, Carl H. / Journal of Social History
In doing so, he rejected the facile expansionist Anglo-Saxonism of his youth, a policy based on vague values, in favor of a political realism that focused on tangible national interests.
The realistic Roosevelt by Parker, Tom / The National Interest
[14] Unlike most white American travelers to Rome, Douglass paid heed to racial mixture, and extolled not the triumph of Anglo-Saxonism but the miscegenated origins of Western civilization.
Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome by Levine, Robert S. / African American Review
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