释义 |
pan-German, a. and n.|pænˈdʒɜːmən| [f. pan- 1 + German: cf. Ger. Alldeutscher.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to all Germans, or to the union of all Germans in one political state.
1892Daily News 27 Feb. 5/2 The present difficulty is not Prussian merely; it is Pan-German. The riots in Vienna are just as serious as those in Berlin. 1902Q. Rev. July 155 The Pan-German ideal, as presented by the lyric poets of the Liberation. Ibid. 160 The Pan-German League..was founded in 1894. B. n. An advocate of pan-Germanism.
1899Daily News 26 Oct. 3/4 The Pan-Germans and Anti-Semites at Hamburg. 1901Scotsman 28 Feb. 7/5 The radical Czechs, by making speeches in their own tongue, caused the Pan-Germans to raise a protest. So pan-Gerˈmanic a., pan-German; pan-ˈGermanism, the notion or principle of the comprehension of all German peoples in an extended Germany; pan-ˈGermany, a Germany including all German peoples.
1900tr. von Bülow in Westm. Gaz. 13 Dec. 2/2 There are laurels of higher worth than those which the Pan-Germanic League has to bestow. 1882Times 30 Mar. 5/4 The Clericals..will no more tolerate Pan-germanism than the Poles Pan-slavism. 1882Echo 29 Aug. 1/5 In order to oppose and neutralize the advancing aggression of ‘Pan-Germanism’. 1902Q. Rev. July 152 It is only quite recently that the term Alldeutschtum was coined..or the foreign equivalent Pan-Germanism..supplied. Ibid. 161 What the Pan-German League wants is..a ‘Greater Germany’, or as the exponents of this idea would say, a ‘Pan-Germany’. |