Anglo-Saxonry

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Saxon +‎ -ry.

Noun

Anglo-Saxonry (countable and uncountable, plural Anglo-Saxonries)

1. (uncountable) The Anglo-Saxon descendant populations of the world collectively.

   Synonym: Anglo-Saxondom

   • 1902, The Book Buyer, page 582:

     Juell Demming is a somewhat bewildering argument in favor of an Anglo-Saxon union, or, as its author prefers to call it, of Anglo-Saxonry.

   • 1957, Claude Bissell, Our Living Tradition:

     Englishness, Anglo-Saxonry, becomes, as I have already hinted, his ruling prejudice, an unconscious substitute for, a psychological equivalent of, religious faith.

   • 2007, Anthony Brundage, Richard A. Cosgrove, The Great Tradition:

     Such a quarrel would undermine the community of Anglo-Saxonry that he supported so strenuously.

2. (countable) An Anglo-Saxonism.
   • 1986, John Lucas, Modern English Poetry:

     Not for him the Anglo-Saxonries of William Barnes or of the 1890s.