Slavonicism

English

Etymology

Slavonic +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sləˈvɒnɪsɪzm̩/

Noun

Slavonicism (plural Slavonicisms)

1. (Slavistics) denoting a word or other linguistic feature borrowed from or formed under influence of Old Church Slavonic or some later Church Slavonic recension.

   Synonym: Church Slavonicism

   • 2005, Derek Offord, “Glossary of linguistic terms”, in Using Russian: A Guide to Contemporary Usage, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page xxxi:

     Slavonicism (славяни́зм): a form of Old Church Slavonic (q.v.) origin.

   • 2011, Toma Tasovac, Natalia Ermolaev, “Encoding Diachrony: Digital Editions of Serbian 18th-Century Texts”, in Gradmann, et al., editors, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL, Berlin, Germany, September 26-28, 2011, Proceedings, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 499:

     For example, a search for the modern-Serbian lexeme захвалност (gratitude) would also return and indicate examples containing the Slavonicism припознанство.

2. (uncountable, historical) 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.

   Near-synonyms: Pan-Slavism, Slavophilia

   • 1876, Henry Sutherland Edwards, “The Russians in Servia”, in The Slavonian Provinces of Turkey; an Historical, Ethnological, and Political Guide to Questions at Issue in These Lands., Second edition, London: E. Stanford, pages 49-50:

     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.

   • 1882, Aleksandr Genrikhovich baron Zhomini, “Details of the Negotiations (1854)”, in Diplomatic Study on the Crimean War (1852 to 1856), London: W. H. Allen & Co, page 274:

     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.

   • 2022 [1996], Keith Carabine, The Life and the Art: A Study of Conrad’s Under Western Eyes, Brill, →ISBN, page 101:

     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" [...]

Coordinate terms

• (foreignisms) foreignism; Akkadianism / Akkadism, Americanism, Amharism, Anglicism, Arabism, Aramaism, Armenism, Australianism, Batavism, Belorussianism, Bengalism, Briticism, Bulgarism, Catalanism, Church Slavicism / Church Slavonicism / Slavonicism, Croatism, Czechism / Bohemianism, Gallicism / Frenchism, Germanism / Teutonism, Grecism / Hellenism, Hebraism, Hispanism / Hispanicism / Castilianism, Hungarianism / Magyarism, Indianism, Iranianism, Irishism, Italianism / Italicism, Japanism, Kazakhism, Latinism, Macedonianism, Mandaism, Moravianism, New Zealandism, Persianism, Polonism, Portuguesism, Russianism, Scotticism, Serbism, Serbo-Croatism, Sinicism, Slavism, Slovenism / Pannonianism, Sumerianism / Sumerism, Syriacism, Turkism, Ukrainism / Ukrainianism, Uzbekism, Yiddishism

See also

• Pan-Slavism
• Russification
• Slavophilia
• Slavophobia
• Westernism
• Westernizer
• zapadnichestvo