Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Extreme nationalism, especially when opposed to international cooperation.
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- noun
Extreme nationalism , the belief in thesuperiority of one'snation and of the paramount importance of advancing it.
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- noun fanatical patriotism
Etymologies
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Examples
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After the nationalist riot, President Dmitry Medvedev warned that ultranationalism is a security threat to the state.
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(YB is really just Russian ultranationalism, Zhirinovsky-style, transplanted to the West Bank.)
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Among the examples he used to make his case was the fate of Bosnia's Muslims, who for generations lived in peace with their Christian compatriots, at least until those compatriots were swayed by Yugoslav ultranationalism to ignore or even take part in a genocidal campaign to wipe out the Muslim population.
Why Awlaki Mattered Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens 2011
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The authoritarian regimes and hybrid forms of power such as dictatorships, authoritarianism, Baathism, or ultranationalism will succumb to one or the other direction, abruptly or gradually.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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Facism is known for its ultranationalism and populism, its anti-intellectualism, its culture of violence, its insistence that it represents the true and only national identity, its treatment of dissent as treason, and its vicious anti-liberalism.
The Volokh Conspiracy » American Universities and the Nazis: 2009
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Facism is known for its ultranationalism and populism, its anti-intellectualism, its culture of violence, its insistence that it represents the true and only national identity, its treatment of dissent as treason, and its vicious anti-liberalism.
The Volokh Conspiracy » American Universities and the Nazis: 2009
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Within the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of ultranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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But there are forces pushing us in the other direction as well—radical Islam, militant evangelical Christianity and Jewish ultranationalism.
How God Converted an Atheist by Jerry Adler William Harryman 2009
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Facism is known for its ultranationalism and populism, its anti-intellectualism, its culture of violence, its insistence that it represents the true and only national identity, its treatment of dissent as treason, and its vicious anti-liberalism.
The Volokh Conspiracy » American Universities and the Nazis: 2009
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The deadline will be followed immediately in Quebec by St. Jean Baptiste Day, traditionally a celebration of ultranationalism.
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