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na·tion·al·ism (nas̸h′ə nəl iz′əm)

noun

    1. devotion to one's nation; patriotism
    2. excessive, narrow, or jingoist patriotism; chauvinism
  2. the doctrine that national interest, security, etc. are more important than international considerations
  3. the desire for or advocacy of national independence

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nationalism Synonyms

nationalism

n.

provincialism, chauvinism, jingoism; see loyalty, patriotism.


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nationalism Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • espouse: The Ba'ath Party, founded in Syria during the 1940s, espoused radical Arab nationalism and socialism.

Preposition: as

  • ideology: They interpreted nationalism as an ideology which in the widest possible sense was more akin to a religion than a state ideology.

Adjective modifier

  • Serbian: Both have foundered on the rock of Serbian nationalism.

Modifies a noun

  • today: Nationalism Today became the springboard for the Third Positionist ideas that the NF later adopted.

Noun used with modifier

  • minority: Locating the historic nation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Mac Laughlin also examines the specificities of minority nationalisms in the nineteenth century.

Possessives

  • 'big-nation: In the first place this essay, like the New Review paper, reveals Hobsbawm as a powerful defender of 'big-nation ' unionist nationalism.

Preposition: in

  • century: Viewed thus, nationalism in the nineteenth century was a veritable new Angel of history.
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nationalism quotes

   Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

-Aldington, Richard pseudonym of  Edward Godfree

Why should Scottish and Welsh nationalism be seen as a noble thing, when in England it is seen as something dirty?

-Baker (of Dorking), Kenneth Baker, Baron

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl

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