[f. as prec. + -ISM.]
1. Anything peculiar to the Anglo-Saxon race.
2. esp. A word, phrase, idiom, or habit of speech, belonging to, or derived from, the Old English, unaffected by Romanic or other foreign admixture.
3. The sentiment of being ‘Anglo-Saxon’ (in sense III.) or English ethnologically; a belief in the superiority or claims of the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ race.
1860. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt. Part., III. cxli. 121. The zeal for Anglo-Saxonism, will be found to be little but rogue calling upon rogue.
1867. Bagehot, Physics & Pol. (1876), 36. In America and in Australia a new modification of what we call Anglo-Saxonism is growing.
