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Jingoism   Listen
noun
jingoism  n.  
1.
The policy of the Jingoes, so called. See Jingo, 2. (Cant, Eng.)
2.
Hence: A bellicose patriotism; aggressive chauvinism; belligerence in international relations.





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"Jingoism" Quotes from Famous Books



... England and Germany and for everything else that would make for racial solidarity. The pitiful thing about this book is that it is so thoroughly representative of the thing for which it pleads. It is the very essence of jingoism; civilization does not exist in and of itself, it is "white"; and the conclusions are directly at variance with the ideals that have been supposed to guide England and America. Incidentally the work speaks of the Negro ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley
... Folks suffering from Jingoism, Spreadeagleism, Chauvinism—all such like isms, to whatever country they belong—would be well advised to take a tour in Holland. It is the idea of the moment that size spells happiness. The bigger the country the better ...
— Idle Ideas in 1905 • Jerome K. Jerome
... and settlers gathered in the border area, the risk of conflict became acute, culminating in the Aroostook War in 1838-39, when the Legislatures of Maine and New Brunswick backed their rival lumberjacks with reckless jingoism. Diplomacy failed repeatedly to obtain a compromise line. Arbitration was tried with little better success, as the United States refused to accept the award of the King of the Netherlands in 1831. The diplomats tried ...
— The Canadian Dominion - A Chronicle of our Northern Neighbor • Oscar D. Skelton
... that the British Power should ever move navy or army in defence of any selfish British interest. They were—they still are, it may be said—the leading lights of what is called the Peace-at-any-price party, detesting war and "jingoism," and viewing patriotism, when found growing on British soil, with dry suspicion. Patriotism in Bulgaria is, however, to their view a growth of a different order, worthy to be encouraged and sheltered at ...
— Bulgaria • Frank Fox
... than the thirteen original States in the first years of the Union, because of the improved means of communication. Transportation facilities were now multiplying more rapidly than population. "Our federal system," he exclaimed, with a burst of jingoism that won a round of applause from Western Democrats as he resumed his seat, "Our federal system is admirably adapted to the whole continent; and, while I would not violate the laws of nations, nor treaty stipulations, nor in any manner tarnish the national ...
— Stephen A. Douglas - A Study in American Politics • Allen Johnson


Words linked to "Jingoism" :   jingoistic, jingoist, demagogy, patriotism, flag waving, superpatriotism, nationalism, ultranationalism, demagoguery


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