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/ɪntərnˈæʃənəlˌɪzəm/ /ɪnərnˈæʃənəlˌɪzəm/ Listen

Internationalism

noun

The doctrine that nations should cooperate because their common interests are more important than their differences.

Quality of being international in scope. Synonym: internationality.

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"Internationalism" Quotes from Famous Books

... Britain, are justly proud and tenacious of our sea power—in the words of the poet, 'We hold all the gates of the water.' Now it is abundantly and convincingly plain that this reinforced principle of nationality bids us to retain and increase them, while internationalism bids us give—them up." ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... the son, grandson, great-grandson, of English Tories. She is the daughter of socialism, syndicalism, pacifism, internationalism—everything that is most apart from my traditions. But she brings to me beauty, innocence, the feminine solution of all intellectual concepts. She, the woman, is the soul of conflicting England. She is torn both ways. But as she has to breed men, some day, she ...

— The Red Planet • William J. Locke

... cosmopolitanism—years that have witnessed the rising of a new star in the East and an uninterrupted growth of interchange of ideas between the nations of the earth, whether in politics, literature, or science, without a single check to the ever-rising tide of internationalism—are we again to let the favourable moment pass unused, just for want of making up our minds? At present one language holds the field. It is well organized; it has abundant enthusiastic partisans accustomed to communicate and transact their common ...

— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark

... This internationalism of Chess is of great advantage to the Chess player who happens to be traveling in a foreign country. There are innumerable Chess Clubs spread all over the globe and the knowledge of the game is the only introduction a man needs to be ...

— Chess and Checkers: The Way to Mastership • Edward Lasker

... fundamental principles the destruction of religion and of private property. These two objects seemed dependent the one on the other. The philosophers of the Jean Jacques held with that expounder of Internationalism, Eugene Dupont, "Nous ne voulons plus de religion, car les ...

— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton