[f. TEUTON + -ISM.]
1. An idiom or mode of expression peculiar to or characteristic of the Teutonic languages, esp. of German; a Germanism.
[1619. Kepler, Harmonia Mundi, IV. v., in Opera (1864), V. 234. Idem quod vultus, facies; quod etiam noster Teutonismus habet, qui faciem solet nominare das Angesicht.]
1889. L. E. & D. Philos. Mag., Nov., 425. The translator has done his part of the work well, although we detect distinct Teutonisms here and there.
2. Teutonic or Germanic character, type, constitution, system, or spirit; German feeling and action (either in the wider ethnical or the restricted national or political sense).
1854. Milman, Lat. Chr., III. vii. (1864), II. 101. Teutonic Europe, or Europe so deeply interpenetrated with Teutonism.
1881. Atlantic Monthly, XLVII. 230. During most of classic antiquity the centre of Teutonism seems to have been farther east than Germany.
1900. A. Lang, in Blackw. Mag., April, 543/2. He regrets the Norman Conquest as an interference with unmixed Teutonism.
