slavonicism
/sləˈvɒnɪsɪzm̩/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
denoting a word or other linguistic feature borrowed from or formed under influence of Old Church Slavonic or some later Church Slavonic recension.
noun
political activities in support of Slavic cultures, languages or Eastern Orthodox religion, especially when perceived as serving irredentist pan-Slavist policies pursued by the Russian Empire.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Slavonicism (славяни́зм): a form of Old Church Slavonic (q.v.) origin."
- "For example, a search for the modern-Serbian lexeme захвалност (gratitude) would also return and indicate examples containing the Slavonicism припознанство."
- "Near-synonyms: Pan-Slavism, Slavophilia"
- "Apart, however, from the narrow technical question, General Tchernaieff could, no doubt, justify his position by the inherent rights of Russians to drive back in every direction the tide of Mahommedanism, and to help forward the flow of Slavonicism and of Christianity."
- "It [the alliance] permitted her [Austria] to rest on the Latin races in order to push back at the same time Protestantism towards the north, and the orthodox Slavonicism in the east and south."
- "Thus for Conrad, who publically [sic] strove to detach Poland from Slavonicism, Kirylo attests the protagonist's quintessential Russianness — associated in "Autocracy and War" and by the narrator in Under Western Eyes with an excess of emotionalism, arbitrariness, illogicality, and "mysticism", and with the illegality and "moral corruption of an oppressed society" [...]"