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Definition of Patrioteer
1. Noun. An extreme bellicose nationalist.
Generic synonyms: Nationalist, Patriot
Derivative terms: Chauvinism, Chauvinistic, Jingoism, Jingoism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patrioteer
Literary usage of Patrioteer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology by Babette Deutsch, Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1921)
"One of Germany's most influential thinkers and men of action presents his vision
of the new society emerging out of the War. THE patrioteer. ..."
2. The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile (1922)
"THE patrioteer. By HEINRICH MANN. Translated by Ernest Boyd. A German "Main
Street," describing the career of a typical product of militarism, in school, ..."
3. A Book of Prefaces by Henry Louis Mencken (1917)
"Even the New Republic has stood clear of it; it is important only as material
for that treatise upon the patrioteer and his bawling which remains to be ..."
4. The Advancing Hour by Norman Hapgood (1920)
"If there is an excuse for using such words as stand-patriot and patrioteer, it
is to modernize Dr. Johnson's famous definition of our kind of patriotism. ..."
5. Secretary Baker at the Front by Ralph A. Hayes (1918)
"... and who was chased out of the bookstore by a super-patriotic clerk,—patrioteer,
Doc called him,—but I found myself veering to the more funereal yarn of ..."
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