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  • noun Plural form of Germanophile.

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Examples

  • Two of my friends are studying German, and I'm taking a German history class, so I'm wondering what kind of Germanophiles we've gone and become.

    lazarus Diary Entry lazarus 2003

  • Germanophiles who had lost the faculty of understanding or even of listening, the instant the German atrocities in Belgium were spoken of.

    Time Regained 2003

  • The reactionary La Libert was publishing, as advertisements, anonymous communications accusing us of being Germanophiles.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • Germanophiles, deliberately trying to disorganize the life of the nation and make successful warfare impossible.

    Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

  • This force, the reactionary Germanophiles, had from the very first hoped and believed that

    Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

  • The Germanophiles were still industriously at work in the most important and vital places, practising sabotage upon a scale never dreamed of before in the history of any nation.

    Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

  • These Germanophiles in places of power realized that they had unconscious but exceedingly useful allies in the Socialist intransigents.

    Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

  • War, and to which I have referred in a previous chapter, it is obvious that a considerable part of this crusade had its origin in Germany and was fomented by Germanophiles of the type of Sir Roger Casement, who was hanged in the Tower of London.

    An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918

  • A few like Keir Hardie, who is never so happy as when girding at British ideals, and stirring up strife if not sedition;, the labour fire-brand Larkin, who endeavoured to win back some of the favour with which he had once been considered, but which he had lost through the stern discountenance of labour's true leaders; Sir Roger Casement and his like, open traitors and Germanophiles -- these stood apart and threw sand into the machinery which they could not control.

    The Philosophy of War 1915

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