saxonism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A word or phrase of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.
Example Sentences
- "The language is not much more easy or intelligible than that of many of the Norman-Saxon poems quoted in the preceding section : it is full of Saxonisms, which indeed abound , more or less , in every writer before Gower and Chaucer ."
- "The quest for Saxonisms is an unrealizable nationalistic dream."