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Anglicism

noun
1.
An expression that is used in Great Britain (especially as contrasted with American English).  Synonyms: Briticism, Britishism.
2.
A custom that is peculiar to England or its citizens.  Synonym: Britishism.





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... long vacation of 1839 I began to study the history of the Monophysites, and was-absorbed in the doctrinal question. It was during this course of reading that for the first time a doubt came upon me of the tenableness of Anglicism, and by the end of August I was seriously alarmed. My stronghold was antiquity; yet here, in the fifth century, I found Christendom of the ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various


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