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‖ patria|ˈpætrɪə, ˈpeɪtrɪə|
[ad. L. patria, fatherland.]
Native country; homeland; also, heaven, as the region from which the soul is exiled while on earth and to which it longs to return.
a1914Joyce Stephen Hero (1944) xix. 64 He refused therefore to set out for any task if he had first to prejudice his success by oaths to his patria. 1919G. B. Shaw What I really wrote about War (1931) 352 As all the delegations have a different patria, and every patria has moral pretensions intolerable to and incompatible with the moral pretensions of all the other patrias, patriotism has to be dropped before any discussion is possible. 1936H. G. Wells Anat. Frustration iv. 46 The causes and devotions, the churches and organizations, the patrias and gangs, the family honour and the caste duty, to which the imagination of man..has clung. 1957G. V. Smithers in Medium ævum XXVI. 151 The use elsewhere of ælþeodig(-nes) to render peregrinus, peregrinatio..shows that elþodigra eard here means the heavenly home (patria) of good Christians (peregrini). 1959C. S. Lewis Let. 5 Nov. (1966) 289 It is just when there seems to be most of Heaven already here that I come nearest to longing for a patria. 1965J. C. Pope in Franciplegius 182 The word elþeodig here is used with reference to the idea that good Christians are exiles and aliens on earth, destined to travel as peregrini toward their patria in heaven. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 May 30/3 The attachment of the creoles to what they had come to regard as their patria—a land of eternal spring as eulogized by local poets in baroque extravaganzas—required spiritual patrons which they could genuinely call their own. |