non-Englishness
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]non-English + -ness
Noun
[edit]- The state or condition of not being English.
- 2009, Lloyd Edward Kermode, Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama[1]:
- In contrast to these positions, Aliens and Englishness is concerned with an important body of sixteenth-century drama that works out Englishness by dealing not with exotic or ancient others but with European aliens of the present and relatively recent past; not by resistance and antithesis alone but by absorption and similitude; not with 'elsewhere' as a location of non-Englishness but with the here and often the now of England […]
Translations
[edit]state of not being English
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