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anglomania
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Word definitions for anglomania in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anglomania \An"glo*ma"ni*a\, n. [Anglo'cf + mania.] A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, English customs, institutions, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1787; see Anglo- + mania . Related: Anglomaniac .
Usage examples of anglomania.
Napoleon accused Hamburg of Anglomania, and by ruining her he thought to ruin England.
He laughed at us for what he called our Anglomania, and always declared that it was nobler to help in creating a new civilisation, than to hang on to the skirts of an old one.
We knew, however, that she disdained the squatters on the Woorara and the Ubi, though she did not mind breaking their hearts, and that she also was infected with the Anglomania, and would never marry any one but a travelled and cultivated Englishman.
Their Anglomania was sometimes so extreme that it bordered on the denial of their own identity.