rare. [f. ENGLISH + -ISM.] In various occasional senses: The characteristics peculiar to the English; English modes of procedure; a manifestation or product of English character; attachment to what is English.
1808. Dauphin Guardian, 9 Aug., 1/2. The approaching one [election], for toryism, traitorism, Englishism, and federalism.
1828. The Roué, III. xiv. 326. There was an approach to Englishism in the appearance of its garden and appurtenances.
1855. Tait’s Mag., XXII. 177/1. He … certificated his patriotism when only an excess of English-ism was imputed.
1864. J. W. Kaye, Sepoy War (heading of chapter), Progress of Englishism [i.e., the remodelling of land tenure in India according to English notions].
1868. Mayne Reid, Child Wife, I. xix. 231. In his own features, and those of the child held in his hand, there was an unmistakable expression of ‘Englishism,’ as seen in its nobler type.
1879. Indian Daily N., 2 Oct. An Englishism … which foreigners note.
