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Jim's going - heading off to war because of this?
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jingoism
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in 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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Many were religious authorities forced to take part in the movement by military men and were inhibited by the barracks-room jingoism . ▪ Only the most narrow jingoism can allow us to deny this. ▪ The War threatened to sweep away ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1878, from jingo + -ism . Related: Jingoist ; jingoistic .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions [syn: flag waving ] fanatical patriotism [syn: chauvinism , superpatriotism , ultranationalism ]
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.