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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

... important Irish measures. The first of these was a Protection of Life and Property Bill brought in in January by Mr. Forster, then Chief Secretary of Ireland. As was to be expected, this was vehemently opposed by the Nationalist members, who retarded it by every means in their power, one famous sitting of the House on this occasion lasting for forty-two hours, from five o'clock on the Monday afternoon to nine o'clock on the Wednesday following, ...

— The Story Of Ireland • Emily Lawless

... like a quick-firing gun, but he was plainly the sort of man who is either mad or right. The mass of the crowd was Nationalist, and already in threatening uproar; and a minority of equally angry Intellectuals, led by Armagnac and Brun, only ...

— The Wisdom of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton

... case were known, the Government were severely criticised by the Labour and the Nationalist parties. In replying to these criticisms, on Wednesday, this pledge was declared to be "not operative." As the result, Colonel Seely, who had signed the assurance, threatened resignation. On Friday, March 26, it was known that both Sir John French and Sir J.S. Ewart ...

— Sir John French - An Authentic Biography • Cecil Chisholm

... latter half of 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 ...

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

... Reuchlin, and was preparing to oppose Luther, and to urge against its own most distinguished pupils the law of penal fire. It continued to oppose the despotism of the Pope, but it did so rather from the standpoint of a narrow and nationalist Gallicanism, based largely upon the counter-despotism of the King. This selfish policy attained in Major's own time its fitting result and reward. The despotic King and despotic Pope found it convenient for their interests to partition between them the ...

— John Knox • A. Taylor Innes

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