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  • noun The state or condition of being Greek.

Etymologies

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Greek +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Whoever denies Macedonians’ Greekness is ignoramus or a SlavoSkopian propagandist.

    Global Voices in English » Macedonia: Alexander the Great as Media Bait 2009

  • Charles Stewart (1991: 27) suggests that the '... competition among local discourses to control the definition and hence the perception and experience of "Greekness"' was located firmly within the ongoing struggle to construct a homogeneous Greek national identity, a project which in fact preceded the Greek Revolution by several decades.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • Metaxas's regeneration promoted an inward-looking celebration of 'Greekness', with explicit references to the 'Greek race', whose destiny was to civilise the world that was characteristic of the populist, anti-Venizelist right.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • Moreover, Moutzan-Martinengo was bewildered by the paradox in which 'Greekness' provided men with the pretext for fighting a war for national liberation while, for women, Greekness legitimised the rigid social controls governing every aspect of their existence.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • 'Engendering "Greekness": Women's emancipation and irredentist politics in nineteenth-century Greece'.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • In fact, most Greeks suspected that their 'class superiors' were ashamed of their 'Greekness'. 30 EAM mobilisational narratives were crafted against this rich reservoir of shared cultural sentiment, rather than drawing on socialist or feminist polemics.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • I do not understand those who talk about the 'Greekness' of my works.

    GotPoetry.com News 2009

  • The Greeks identified "Greekness" with membership of the Orthodox Church rather than the legacy of Pericles - they were ignoring their ancient ruins, when they were not chopping up the marble remains and burning them in kilns to produce lime.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • Dear World, dear SlavoSkopians, lets respect Macedonians´ timeless and doubtless Greekness which is very well known worldwide Inappropriate comment?

    SofiaEcho RSS feed 2009

  • If one sees "Greekness" in it, it will show his desperation and paucity of better arguments.

    American Chronicle 2008

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