Germanicity
nounEtymology From Germanic + -ity.
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The quality of being Germanic.
- I should have liked to say a few words on your objection to my idea about the Germanicity of Protestantism.1910, Gobineaus Rassenwerk, page 205:
- [...] the Germanicity of the language of the Franks.1994, History of Linguistics, page 64:
3 more examples
- [...] the Germanicity of the region.2002, Baltisch-deutsche Sprachen und Kulturenkontakte, page 95:
- The Germanicity of the Baltic Sea consisted in the very fact that it never belonged exclusively to one people — not even to one Germanic people — but rather was historically constitutive as an intra-Germanic fighting space.2004, Perceptions of Loss, Decline and Doom in the Baltic Sea Region, page 156:
- [...] of Germanicity, and hence Scotland must be Germanic to be civilised.2019, The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Englightenment, page 256:
- Related terms
- Germanness