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patriotism
(encz) | patriotism,patriotismus n: Zdeněk Brož |
patriotism
(encz) | patriotism,vlastenectví n: Ritchie |
Patriotism
(gcide) | Patriotism \Pa"tri*ot*ism\, n. [Cf. F. patriotisme.]
Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country;
the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which
inspires one to serve one's country. --Berkley.
[1913 Webster] |
patriotism
(wn) | patriotism
n 1: love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it; "they
rode the same wave of popular patriotism"; "British
nationalism was in the air and patriotic sentiments ran
high" [syn: patriotism, nationalism] |
patriotism
(devil) | PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one
ambitious to illuminate his name.
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the
last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened
but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
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