Crossword clues for jingoism
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
jingoism \jin"go*ism\, n.
The policy of the Jingoes, so called. See Jingo,
2. Hence: A bellicose patriotism; aggressive chauvinism; belligerence in international relations.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) Excessive patriotism or aggressive nationalism especially with regards to foreign policy. 2 (context countable English) A jingoistic attitude, comment, etc.
WordNet
n. an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions [syn: flag waving]
fanatical patriotism [syn: chauvinism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism]
Wikipedia
Jingoism is patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy. Jingoism also refers to a country's advocacy for the use of threats or actual force, as opposed to peaceful relations, in efforts to safeguard what it perceives as its national interests. Colloquially, it refers to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others—an extreme type of nationalism.
The term originated in Britain, expressing a pugnacious attitude toward Russia in the 1870s, and appeared in the American press by 1893.
Usage examples of "jingoism".
Similarly, texts would be read in the context of racism, sexism, elitism, speciesism, jingoism, imperialism, logocentrism, phallocentrism.
He became intimate with the nationalist and Slavophil circles of Moscow, and as he was of a distinctly unintellectual turn of mind, their nationalism was reflected in him in the form of a very crude jingoism.
Americans, liberals prattle on and on about the right to dissent as the true mark of patriotism and claim their unrelenting kvetching is a needed corrective to jingoism.
Contact with another intelligent species on a planet of some other star – a species biologically far more different from us than dolphins or whales – may help us to cast off our baggage of accumulated jingoisms, from nationalism to human chauvinism.