Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being a compatriot or fellow-countryman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition of being compatriots.
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- noun The condition of being
compatriots .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But I would sorely miss your posts and compatriotism if you decided it wasn't safe!
Decision time Professor in Training 2009
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Our male companions are for the most part transferred to other prisons, and among the number are two young Englishmen, with whom I used sometimes to converse in French, without acknowledging our compatriotism.
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Our male companions are for the most part transferred to other prisons, and among the number are two young Englishmen, with whom I used sometimes to converse in French, without acknowledging our compatriotism.
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The captain, whose open, ingenuous countenance dissembled as villainous a heart as ever beat in the breast of any man, disowned the compatriotism with a smile.
Saint Martin's Summer Rafael Sabatini 1912
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It may be doubted whether any competent critic not, like Scott, bribed by compatriotism, ever put Smollett above Fielding, or even on a level with him.
The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889
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It was part of our mission to lunch at the most gorgeous of the hotels, and to look upon such of our fellow-countrymen as we might see there, after our long seclusion at Villeneuve; and we easily found all the splendor and compatriotism we wanted.
A Little Swiss Sojourn William Dean Howells 1878
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Our male companions are for the most part transferred to other prisons, and among the number are two young Englishmen, with whom I used sometimes to converse in French, without acknowledging our compatriotism.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795 Lady, An English 1797
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The argument that Palestinian residents of the West Bank will pay this price in order to help the inhabitants of Gaza to attain a viable port etc., surely attributes to them a degree of altruistic compatriotism that their history has - thus far - belied.
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