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noun
Anglicism  n.  
1.
An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English.
2.
The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Anglicism" Quotes from Famous Books



... Thursday—he has married an English wife, you know—can't understand that either, how they can marry English wives. However, that's none of my business—we have nothing to do with marrying, we priests, except as a sacrament for others. I said to M. le comte, who, you know, shows tendencies toward anglicism—astonishing the influence of women—I said: 'But, my dear M. le comte, why change? You will only exchange certainty for uncertainty, facts for doubts, truth for lies.' 'Yes, yes,' the comte replied, 'but there are so many new truths introduced now into our blessed religion—the infallibility ...
— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd

... of diction; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation; yet if his language had been less idiomatical it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble and he did not wish to be energetic; he is never rapid and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity; his periods, though ...
— Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, and Swift • Samuel Johnson



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