Germanicity

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noun

The quality of being Germanic.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounGermanicity (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being Germanic.

    [...] the Germanicity of the region.

    2002, Baltisch-deutsche Sprachen und Kulturenkontakte, page 95
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    I should have liked to say a few words on your objection to my idea about the Germanicity of Protestantism.

    1910, Gobineaus Rassenwerk, page 205

    [...] the Germanicity of the language of the Franks.

    1994, History of Linguistics, page 64

    The Germanicity of the Baltic Sea consisted in the very fact that it never belonged exclusively to one people — not even to one Germanic people — but rather was historically constitutive as an intra-Germanic fighting space.

    2004, Perceptions of Loss, Decline and Doom in the Baltic Sea Region, page 156

    [...] of Germanicity, and hence Scotland must be Germanic to be civilised.

    2019, The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Englightenment, page 256

Origin

Translations

French germanicité
  • germanicitéTranslations
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