[f. as prec. + -IST.]
1. One versed in the history, etc., of the Teutonic race or languages; one who makes much of Teutonic influence in the history of England.
1882. Academy, No. 511. 112. [J. R. Green’s] ‘Making of England’ … will probably long represent the last word of the Teutonist on the nature and extent of the primitive English settlement.
1883. T. Kerslake in N. & Q., 6th Ser. VII. 301/2. A canon of the most profound English Teutonist, the late Mr. Kemble.
2. One whose writings have a Teutonic character or style.
1894. G. Allen, in Westm. Gaz., 25 July, 3/1. You may divide our poets … into two great schools in this matter—the Classicists and the Teutonists, if I may venture so to style them…. To this latter class belong Shakespeare, Keats, Coleridge, Burns, Rossetti, and the greater part of our romantic poets.
