Meanings
- uncommonuncountableUncommon spelling of anti-Gallicanism.
And in this latter he is conditioned, not always beneficially, by a violent Antigallicanism, and by an Anglomania, creditable but a very little indiscriminate.
1903, George Saintsbury, Loci Critici: Passages Illustrative of Critical Theory and Practice from Aristotle Downwards, page 2602 more examples
No truly English heart, for instance, could bear, under pretence of Antigallicanism, to associate itself with the principles of the Duke of Brunswick's manifesto.
1802, Robert Adair, “Preface”, in The Letter of the Honourable Charles James Fox to the Electors of Westminster, Dated January 23d, 1793 […] , page xxii“I own myself,” says his lordship, in that severe spirit of Antigallicanism for which he was ever so remarkable, “wicked enough to wish them all to die in that country they chose to invade.”
1806, James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson […] , volume 2, page 206
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