Americaness

noun

Amer·​i·​can·​ess

plural -s

old-fashioned, dated

: an American woman

With such expectations, then, every true American and Americaness was expected to be at his or her post, for the solemn occasion.

—James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found, 1839

Word History

First Known Use

1838, in the meaning defined above

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