Anglo-Saxony
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Anglo-Saxon + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns or names of locations) under influence of Saxony.
Senses: examples: text: Our Constitution nourished twins. It carried Africa on its left bosom, and Anglo-Saxony on its right bosom; and these two, drawing milk from the same bosom, have waxed strong, and stand to-day federated into the one republic.
ref: 1861 January 4, Henry Ward Beecher, “Peace, Be Still. […]”, in Fast Day Sermons: or, The Pulpit on the State of the Country, New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton, […], →OCLC, page 277:
text: Nothing draws like the naughty. Now, the Cercle ball is supposed to be the naughtiest of the “respectable” masked balls during the season. Hence Anglo-Saxony invested in the Cercle ball last year to the clear profit of $6,000. Arithmetical persons with keen faces, who hovered near the box-office last night, maintained that Anglo-Saxony was done for $10,000 this year.
ref: 1882 January 17, “The Ball of the Cercle: Many Anglo-Saxons and Some Frenchmen Making Merry. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2025, page 5, column 4:
text: By the middle of the century, J[ohn] M[itchell] Kemble’s bestselling work The Saxons in England (1849) had acquainted a wide public with the trend in German and English scholarship, which was to seek an antique model for a common racial heritage in the concept of Anglo-Saxony. […] Anglo-Saxony and queenship were seen as complementary, and the cult of Anglo-Saxony as confirming England’s right to lead (and own) most of the world. […] By the mid-century Judith had acquired a role as a national identity, Englishness, and as an international ethnicity, Anglo-Saxony, which was in implicit opposition to her other incarnation as Romantic Criminal. […] In sharp contrast to the antisemitic Germanic psychological tradition, the ideology of Anglo-Saxony exalted Judith as one of its models of distinctive national character.
ref: 1998, Margarita Stocker, “Anglo-Saxony”, in Judith: Sexual Warrior: Women and Power in Western Culture, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →ISBN, chapter 7 (The Dark Angel: Romantic Criminals and Oriental Others), pages 131–134:
glosses: The geographical or cultural realm of Anglo-Saxons (people of English ethnic descent); Anglo-Saxons collectively.
examples: text: To conclude the observations relative to Anglo-Saxony, it may be observed that, the principal part of its territory, when most extended, is now included in the dominions of Prussia; […]
ref: 1819, John Thomson, Observations Introductory to a Work on English Etymology, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 11:
text: As to the strife itself, it appears to have lain between equal forces, as far as we can now conjecture. The south-west of Scotland was then probably an ally of Kenneth, as being of the same race. All the south-east was Anglo-Saxony.
ref: 1824, John Macculloch, “Origin and Races of the Highlanders”, in The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, Containing Descriptions of Their Scenery and Antiquities, […], volume IV, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 293:
text: Vikings were considered of inferior racial specimen during the Nordic atempts to civilise British Anglo-Saxony.
ref: 2008 July 18, polkovniksandev@yahoo.com.au, “Anglo-Saxony's grievances towards the Nordics in 3 parts”, in soc.culture.baltics (Usenet), archived from the original on 31 Jul 2025:
glosses: The geographical or cultural realm of Anglo-Saxons (members of the Germanic peoples who settled in England during the early fifth century); Anglo-Saxons collectively.
Related terms: Anglo-Saxonry