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Loyalty to the USA and its institutions
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americanism
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Word definitions for americanism in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Americanism \A*mer"i*can*ism\, n. Attachment to the United States. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Americanism is "an articulation of the [United States of America's] rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning." According the American Legion (a U.S. veterans' organization), ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1781, in reference to words or phrases distinct from British use, coined by John Witherspoon (1723-1794), president of Princeton College, from American + -ism . ( American English "English language as spoken in the United States" is first recorded 1806, ...
Usage examples of americanism.
American people believed more in Americanism than they did in democracy.
In truth, it was, of course, a great mistake to conceive Americanism as intellectually and morally a species of Newer-Worldliness.
Just as economic and political Americanism has been broad enough and vital enough to make a place in the American social economy for the hordes of European immigrants with their many diverse national characteristics, so the intellectual basis of Americanism must be broad enough to include and vigorous enough to assimilate the special ideals and means of discipline necessary to every kind of intellectual or moral excellence.
American moral and intellectual emancipation can be achieved only by a victory over the ideas, the conditions, and the standards which make Americanism tantamount to collective irresponsibility and to the moral and intellectual subordination of the individual to a commonplace popular average.
In the sense of a person concerned with the serious matter of creating wealth it is an Americanism dating from 1830.
In its homophobic sense, the term is an Americanism first recorded in 1905, but beyond that almost nothing is known.
These schizophrenic percentages resolve themselves into the thesis of the rabbis that Judaism, Trotskyist Bolshevism, and Americanism are one and the same.
Americanism and Fordism, one of the fundamental texts for understanding the American problem from the European point of view.
In later years, actual experience led me to rewrite, awarding more Americanism, more light - and inevitably more darkness.
But all of that still didn't tarnish Hobart Quennel's unimpeachable Americanism, misguided as you might think it, or the fact that even the most scurrilous attacks on him had never been able to attach him adhesively to any subversive faction or foreign-controlled activity.
There are strong resemblances between Americanism, communism and Aryanism: all are government ideas and therefore will naturally describe characteristics of the easily-governed.
Kruschev sends his sloganeering robots into the bracero community, where they spout Commie rebop and corrupt a youth group that Big Pete has been indoctrinating into Americanism.