bellicism

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“Many anglicisms are used in place of existing French words or expressions, inevitably leading to the gradual erasure of the French equivalents,” said the report.

From The Verge • May 31, 2022

The association, which publishes an index of anglicisms that have entered the German language alongside German-language alternatives, has gained an increasingly conservative profile in recent years, leading one critic to dub it “Pegida for linguists”.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2019

The examples in Dr. Johnson's quarto Dictionary exhibit the words, gallicisms, anglicisms, hebrician, latinize, latinized, judaized, and christianized, without capitals; and the words Latinisms, Grecisms, Hebraisms, and Frenchified, under like circumstances, with them.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

But as we advance, we discover in our most eminent writers the anglicisms diminish; and Sharon Turner has observed that a fifth of the Saxon language has ceased to be used.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac