Anglist

plural Anglists

1. Synonym of Anglicist.

   Dyboski, the most eminent of Polish Anglists, who was twice lent to us for long periods, was from the first a heart-to-heart colleague.

   1939, The Slavonic and East European Review, volume 18, page 72

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   Most Anglists, it appears, in Germany conceive that they have done their duty if they have studied thoroughly Gothic, German, and English; but they are warned that no one can pretend to be a serious student of English who has not mastered the Old Norse and made himself acquainted generally with the Scandinavian languages, besides possessing a competent knowledge of comparative grammar and of Sanskrit.

   1888 January 1, The Journal of Education, a Monthly Record and Review, volume X, London: […] William Rice, […], page 32, column 2

   While structuralists verge on re-writing the records, Anglists sometimes retreat behind the texts into a determined profession of linguistic agnosticism.

   1990, American Notes Queries, page 46

   All we can say is that the leading role that Dutch Anglists used to play in the description of English grammar has been taken over by native grammarians and this is as it should be.

   1990, Flor Aarts, Theo van Els, editors, Contemporary Dutch Linguistics, Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 27

   Synonyms: Anglicist