Anglomanic

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English

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Etymology

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From Anglomania +‎ -ic.

Adjective

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Anglomanic (not comparable)

  1. having Anglomania.
    • 1876, M. E. Grant Duff, The Contemporary Review, Volume 27, page 700:
      This was originally an English, or, as it was called by its opponents, an Anglomanic movement, which, having spread over the Continent through the writings of Voltaire and other French authors during the eighteenth century, was then wholly interrupted for a time by the Revolution, but reappeared after the great peace, deeply dyed in many places by the colours of that Revolution.
    • 1983, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, Masters of American Cookery: M.F.K. Fisher, James Andrew Beard, Raymond Craig Claiborne, Julia McWilliams Child, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 24:
      On one side were her Anglomanic mother, Edith, joined by Aunt Gwen of the delicious Fried-Egg Sandwiches and French-Fried Onion Rings.
    • 2015, Thomas Fleming, chapter 14, in The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation, Da Capo Press, →ISBN:
      The President represented no one but himself and the Anglomanic Hamilton and his allies.

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