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teutonic

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1. teutonic - Noun

2. teutonic - Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the Teutons, esp. the ancient Teutons; Germanic.

Of or pertaining to any of the Teutonic languages, or the peoples who speak these languages.

The language of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic languages, collectively.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories. Hans Frank

[William James, in the 1890s] began that metamorphosis of German psychology which was to alter the Teutonic worm of sensory content into the American butterfly of functional reality. Edwin Boring

Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i. e. neutral. Alan Coren

For the less Teutonic a land is, the more uncivilised it is. Houston Stewart Chamberlain

The noble Moor of Spain is anything but a pure Arab of the desert, he is half a Berber (from the Aryan family) and his veins are so full of Gothic blood that even at the present day noble inhabitants of Morocco can trace their descent back to Teutonic ancestors. Houston Stewart Chamberlain

In the United States, the slightest infusion of Teutonic blood is thought to be sufficient to account for any considerable degree of intelligence found under any possible color of the skin. Frederick Douglass

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