[Ads-l] Antedating of "Americanism"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sat Dec 17 19:54:24 UTC 2022


Americanism (OED 1781)

1779 Edinburgh Eighth-Day Magazine 22 Nov. 332 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)

Every man of sound sense and loyalty, who is not infected with Americanism ... must readily own.

Fred Shapiro

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