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  • noun Plural form of patriotism.

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Examples

  • It is the same difficulty which is looming large in modern World-politics, where the local selfishness and vainglorious "patriotisms" of the Nations are sadly impeding and obstructing the development of that sense of Internationalism and

    Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886

  • A special citation that reads in part Know ye that reprising special trust and carefully in the patriotisms, valor, fidelity and abilities of MICHAEL RICHARD ROGERS him a Captain US Army to date as such from tenth of January nineteen hundred and eighty one.

    MICHAEL RICHARD ROGERS 2010

  • Indianization or Francophilia — for which the nation has been chastened or is to be chastened will become all too evident in the emergent patriotisms of the early nineteenth century.

    Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006

  • When their decades of vulnerability arrived, they had generations, even centuries, of principles, commitments, patriotisms and religious beliefs -- a kind of moral and behavioral momentum -- underpinning their hubris and exceptionalism.

    Kevin Phillips: What the Democrats and the Republicans Won't Talk About: Defeat in the "Greater Mideast" 2008

  • In the past men could live and live fully within their patriotisms and their business enterprises, because they knew no better.

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • They are always fought by the poorest people seeking better living standards for them (revolutions) or driven by blind patriotisms (wars).

    Think Progress » Bush Officials May Have Covered Up Rice-Tenet Meeting From 9/11 Commission 2006

  • Few earthly economists have been able to disentangle themselves from patriotisms and politics, and their obsession has always been international trade.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • The coarser conceptions of aggregation are at hand, the hostile, jealous patriotisms, the blare of trumpets and the pride of fools; they serve the daily need though they lead towards disaster.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • Frustration was essentially an age that could not clear away, either debts, sovereignties, patriotisms, old classes, old boundaries, old buildings, old scores or old grievances.

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • Provincial patriotisms are not the the answer to the lack of Canadian patriotism.

    America, Britain and Canada—The "A B C" of Destiny 1953

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