Crossword-Solution: ANGLICISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anglicism | n. | An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English. |
| Anglicism | n. | The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ANGLICISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ENGLISH idiom | 1 answer |
| Fisherman's creed? | 1 answer |
| word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to the English language, esp as spoken in England | 1 answer |
| Dialect | 24 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANGLICISM (5)
Whenever it is found that a young couple are agreeable (to use a peculiar anglicized anglicism), in all the more essential requisites of matrimony, they are sent on the journey in question, under the care of prudent and experienced mentors, with a view to ascertain how far they may be able to support, in each other’s society, the ordinary vicissitudes of life.
The expression _honeymoon_ is an Anglicism, which has become an idiom in all languages, so gracefully does it depict the nuptial season which is so fugitive, and during which life is nothing but sweetness and rapture; the expression survives as illusions and errors survive, for it contains the most odious of falsehoods.
And that it is translated 'soul', is an Anglicism, not understood in other languages, which have no other word for 'soul' but the same which is for life.
For I am often put to a stand, in considering whether what I write be the idiom of the tongue, or false grammar, and nonsense couched beneath that specious name of Anglicism; and have no other way to clear my doubts, but by translating my English into Latin, and thereby trying what sense the words will bear in a more stable language.
The toryism with which we struggled in ‘77, differed but in name from the federalism of ‘99, with which we struggled also; and the Anglicism, of 1808, against which we are now struggling, is but the same thing still, in another form.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1986).