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nationalism

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it [syn: patriotism ] the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other [ant: multiculturalism , internationalism ] the aspiration for national independence felt by people ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 patriotism; the idea of supporting one's country, people and culture. 2 Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist). 3 jingoism; the support of one nation's interests to the exclusion of others; the hatred of other ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1844, "devotion to one's country;" see nationalist + -ism ; in some usages from French nationalisme . Earlier it was used in a theological sense of "the doctrine of divine election of nations" (1836). Later it was used in a sense of "doctrine advocating ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nationalism \Na"tion*al*ism\, n. The state of being national; national attachment; nationality. An idiom, trait, or character peculiar to any nation. National independence; the principles of the Nationalists. A devotion to one's country; patriotism; ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE arab ▪ Maxime Rodinson discusses the nature of Arab nationalism . ▪ Mrowa, who founded the paper in 1946, was killed for his opposition to the birth of Arab nationalism . ▪ This policy was associated with the radical ...

Usage examples of nationalism.

Creed are exceptional: the absolutist passion with which these beliefs are held and the degree to which they are integral to American nationalism.

According to Stalin, nations are immediately revolutionary, and revolution means modernization: nationalism is an ineluctable stage in development.

Free Trade nationalism in power is better than high tariff nationalism, and pacificist party liberalism better than aggressive party patriotism.

The most significant instances of revolt and revolution against these modern power structures therefore were those that posed the struggle against exploitation together with the struggle against nationalism, colonialism, and imperialism.

American capitalism feeds in turn the greater radicalism of the American Right and the culture of American nationalism.

It has been reported that our passenger manifest includes a pair of individuals belonging to a terrorist group identified with revanchist Muscovite nationalism.

Moreover, in response to their own sentiments but also to appeal to the American people, they made things worse by packaging imperialism as American nationalism, thereby adopting a number of gratuitously unilateralist measures and approaches.

Apollon Maikov, the poet whom he had once tried unsuccessfully to recruit for the Speshnev secret society in 1849, and who, like himself, had evolved from Russian Westernism toward a much more fervent nationalism.

But satire often possesses an anarchic force that may undercut the principles that nationalism establishes.

Linked to this bellicose nationalism was a return to pre-Civil War patterns in which Southerners were the most ardent proponents of American imperial expansion.

Chauvinist and bellicose nationalism, although always present, has not become the U.

The disintegration, during the second half of the twentieth century, of the organizing principles of international affairs - most crucially Empire in the 1960s and Communism in the 1980s - led to the re-eruption of exclusionary, intolerant, and militant nationalism.

But now the reviving nationalisms, the resuscitating social and commercial interests of the moribund old world system, were acutely aware of the immense significance of events at Basra, and there had gathered an assemblage of delegations, reporters, adventurers, friends and camp followers of every description, far exceeding the numbers of the actual Fellows.

Indeed, professed to have outgrown nationalism, and to stand for political and cultural world unity.

This latter-day civilization, however, had wholly outgrown nationalism, and had spent many centuries of peace in consolidating itself.