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- adjective Obsolete form of
patriotic .
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Examples
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Perhaps he may have some of what he calls his patriotick friends with him. '
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Perhaps he may have some of what he calls his patriotick friends with him. '
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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Perhaps he may have some of what he calls his patriotick friends with him. '
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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Perhaps he may have some of what he calls his patriotick friends with him.’
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Amidst some patriotick groans, somebody (I think the Alderman) said, ‘Poor old England is lost.’
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We were shewn a chimney at the other end, which was only a nich, without perforation, but so much does antiquarian credulity, or patriotick vanity prevail, that it was not much more safe to trust the eye of our instructor than the memory.
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Yet all History and every age exhibit Instances of patriotick virtue in the female Sex; which considering our situation equals the most Heroick of yours.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 17 June 1782, with a List of Articles wanted from Holland 1973
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You will ask me I suppose what is become of my patriotick virtue?
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I was led to the request from reading the following character of him in my favorite Thomson and from some spiritted and patriotick speaches of his in the Reign of Gorge 2.
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Having received the reward of a gratefool country, he is resting from his patriotick labors at Saratogy or Long Branch.
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