Americaness

1. rareuncountableRare form of Americanness.

   The necessity of race to Americaness continued through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and remains central to our identity today: […]

   2008, Patrick B. Mullen, The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 8

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   There was support for the United States' involvement in Vietnam, though in Lawrence such support expressed a particular brand of patriotism, an Americaness drawn from the past.

   2002, Rusty L. Monhollon, "This Is America?:" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas, Palgrave, →ISBN, page 125

   Although cultural pride in baseball seems to stem from its Americaness, cultural pride in football seems linked to the sport's manly qualities […]

   2005, Sarah K. Fields, Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America, University of Illinois Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 47

plural Americanesses

1. rareA female American.

   2017 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught Between me and the picture of Denise— mostly the portrait—they'll be thinking 'Americans.' Well, Americanesses.

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   With such expectations, then, every true American and Americaness was expected to be at his or her post, for the solemn occasion.

   1839, James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found, page 93

   There was, at the Leek, in the way of literature, aBradshaw, a work (selling sixty thousand daily, it said) of one of those Americanesses who have struggled in at the gate of the heaven of popularity before it could be shut after Mrs. Beecher Stowe

   1856, Household Words, volume 35

   This woman is like most Americanesses - she hates walking.

   1889 Americanisms (quoting Hallberger's Illustrated Magazine, date unknown)

   2007 1634: The Baltic War But this office was reputedly run by Americanesses, and the stories about them were enough to make any sane man pause. Incredible women, by all accounts