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noun
Germanism  n.  
1.
An idiom of the German language.
2.
A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Germanism" Quotes from Famous Books



... at Harvard University, whose openly expressed pro-Germanism was making him exceedingly unpopular in ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I • Burton J. Hendrick

... "You only care about the' things that you can use, and therefore arrange them in the following order: Money, supremely useful; intellect, rather useful; imagination, of no use at all. No"—for the other had protested—"your Pan-Germanism is no more imaginative than is our Imperialism over here. It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost ...
— Howards End • E. M. Forster



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