Patriotic
[ˌpeɪtri'ɒtɪk] or [[ˌpeɪtri'ɒtɪk]
Definition
(a.) Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.
Checker: Otis
Examples
- The tension of patriotic and republican France was now becoming intolerable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He could not see Miaja on a bicycle even in his most patriotic imagination, but Karkov said it was true. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The catching business, we beg to remind them, is rising to the dignity of a lawful and patriotic profession. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Farewell to the patriotic scene, to the love of liberty and well earned meed of virtuous aspiration! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It would have been more than human in them if they had not given way to some excesses of patriotic vanity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Germania was deliberately intoxicated, she was systematically kept drunk, with this sort of patriotic rhetoric. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Speeches were in order, but it is doubtful whether it would have been safe just then to make other than patriotic ones. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It has had an enormous patriotic value. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This was not considered a show of Vanity Fair, but a commemoration of patriotic sacrifice. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A minister pronounced the benediction, and the patriotic little gathering disbanded. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His mother was of sturdier stuff, passionately patriotic and a strong and managing woman. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Whereupon Caliphronas sang that patriotic song, which was written by some modern Hellenic Tyrt?us during the War of Independence. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Her people were as patriotic and spirited as any. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden The famous name of Merdle became, every day, more famous in the land. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The quotation of a phrase or so will serve to show to what the patriotic anger of Demosthenes could bring him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thereupon the Spanish arose in a state of patriotic fury, surrounded a French army at Baylen, and compelled it to surrender. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then she said with strange assumption of authority: 'Yes, but even so, is the patriotic appeal an appeal to the racial instinct? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The imitation of German patriotic misconceptions did not end with this Anglo-Saxon fabrication. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Rely upon the patriotic Jury, dear citizeness. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- His machinery came on the markets of the world, his shipping took the seas with a splash of patriotic challenge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With some excess of patriotic pride, he contrasts these with what he calls the seven wonders of American invention. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Their standards of patriotic virtue were high and harsh. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It had a quieter look than any other place of the same description they had passed, and, though red with patriotic caps, was not so red as the rest. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Then to patriotic zeal, to the arts, to reputation, to enduring fame, to the name of country, we had bidden farewell. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There was a shouting of patriotic sentiments, and someone looked out from the H?tel de Ville. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But with their opposite characteristics both were great and successful soldiers; both were true, patriotic and upright in all their dealings. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- What a patriotic man, Pablo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Can a grandfather jail a patriotic grandson who is dying that Italy may live? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Any sort of _clich閟_ both revolutionary and patriotic. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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