Anglo-Saxonry

plural Anglo-Saxonries

1. uncountableThe Anglo-Saxon descendant populations of the world collectively.

   Such a quarrel would undermine the community of Anglo-Saxonry that he supported so strenuously.

   2007, Anthony Brundage, Richard A. Cosgrove, The Great Tradition

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   Juell Demming is a somewhat bewildering argument in favor of an Anglo-Saxon union, or, as its author prefers to call it, of Anglo-Saxonry.

   1902, The Book Buyer, page 582

   Englishness, Anglo-Saxonry, becomes, as I have already hinted, his ruling prejudice, an unconscious substitute for, a psychological equivalent of, religious faith.

   1957, Claude Bissell, Our Living Tradition

   Synonyms: Anglo-Saxondom

2. countableAn Anglo-Saxonism.

   Not for him the Anglo-Saxonries of William Barnes or of the 1890s.

   1986, John Lucas, Modern English Poetry