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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



... wholesale suppression of democratic rights, and involves an organised manufacture of imperialistic emotion which ends by delegating the authority of the State to a reactionary triumvirate of bureaucracy, jingoism and vulgarity (or Tory, Landowner and Journalist). The guarantees of democracy, the rights of free thought and free speech, every sort of civil liberty and every defence against the servile state, will all have to be suppressed in the interests of the nation at war. It is the old story of the ...
— The World in Chains - Some Aspects of War and Trade • John Mavrogordato


Words linked to "Jingoism" :   nationalism, ultranationalism, jingoistic, demagoguery, chauvinism, superpatriotism, flag waving


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