Definition of Compatriotic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compatriotic

compatibilization
compatibilizations
compatibilized
compatibilizer
compatibilizers
compatible
compatible software
compatible solute
compatibleness
compatibles
compatibly
compatient
compatriate
compatriates
compatriot
compatriotic (current term)
compatriotism
compatriots
compear
compeared
compears
comped
compeer
compeered
compeering
compeers
compel
compellable
compellably
compellation

Literary usage of Compatriotic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"It will be hardly fair to the English girl, but, if I stand in the gap between them, I shall summon up no small quantity of dormant compatriotic feeling. ..."

2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"It finds a compatriotic echo in this familiar story : " India, my boy," said an Irish officer to a friend on his arrival at Calcutta, "is the finest climate ..."

3. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"... and she is seen last at Rome (where indeed she dies of the fever) the wonder of the international and the opprobrium of the compatriotic society. ..."

4. The American Novel by Carl Van Doren (1921)
"... now that he felt himself securely European and no longer felt the responsibility which once had brought compatriotic blushes to his cheek. ..."

5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1865)
"... happening as he does, by sonic peculiar texture of his nationality, to rub against the grain of our preconceptions, whether compatriotic or personal. ..."

6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"... or gallant to the comfortable frau, and winning both simple hearts with eloquent praises of their dear Captain Sutler, who, to their compatriotic pride, ..."

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