OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14750

patriotism

/ˈpætɹi.əˌtɪzəm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
patriotismo
Love of one's country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one's country.
In the hour of death we shall have the consolation to see established in the land of our fathers the most wonderful work of wisdom and disinterested patriotism that has ever yet ap…
That public virtue, which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and prosperity of the free governmen…
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