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Nationalist

adjective

Devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others. Synonym: nationalistic. "Minor nationalistic differences"

noun

One who loves and defends his or her country. Synonym: patriot.

An advocate of national independence of or a strong national government.

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"Nationalist" Quotes from Famous Books

... the century belongs the so-called Celtic revival, which connects itself with the Nationalist movement in politics and is partly literary and partly patriotic. It may be doubted whether, for practical purposes, the Gaelic will ever come again into general use. But the concerted endeavour by a whole nation to win back its ...

— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... to unqualified admiration. I regret, too, that he has not taken the opportunity of this letter to reprobate a form of moral perversion which is widely spread among his Irish co-religionists, and which his own words are only too likely to strengthen. It is but a short time since an Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament, being accused of once having served the Queen as a Volunteer, justified himself by saying that he had only worn the coat which was worn by Lord Edward Fitzgerald and Boyle O'Reilly; while another Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament, ...

— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... to see in Donatism a nationalist or separatist movement directed against the Roman occupation? That would be to transport quite modern ideas into antiquity. No more in Augustin's time than in our own was there such a thing as African nationality. But if the sectaries ...

— Saint Augustin • Louis Bertrand

... have already published some very important things, but no secret documents; recently, however, Tardieu and Poincare, in the interest of the French nationalist thesis which they sustain, have published also documents of a very reserved nature. Tardieu's book is a documentary proof of the French Government's extremist attitude during the conference, amply showing that the present form of peace has been desired almost exclusively by ...

— Peaceless Europe • Francesco Saverio Nitti

... Spain and Portugal against reactionary monarchs. Belgium was countenanced in its successful revolution against the House of Orange, and Italian states in their revolts against native and foreign despots; the expulsion of the Hapsburgs and Bourbons from Italy, and its unification on a nationalist basis, owed something to British diplomacy, which supported Cavour, and to British volunteers who fought for Garibaldi. The attitude of Britain towards the Balkan nationalities, which were endeavouring to ...

— The History of England - A Study in Political Evolution • A. F. Pollard

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