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patriotic, a.|peɪtrɪˈɒtɪk, pæt-|
[ad. late L. patriōtic-us (Cassiodorus), a. Gr. πατριωτικ-ός, f. πατριώτης patriot: see -ic. Cf. F. patriotique (Rabelais, 16th c.).]
†1. Of or belonging to one's country. Obs.
1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. vi. 31 Whilest we prestolate the coming of the Tabellaries from the Penates and patriotick Lares [F. lares patriotiques].
2. Having the character of a patriot; worthy or characteristic of a patriot; marked by devotion to the wellbeing or interests of one's country.
1757Herald No. 6 (1758) I. 82 Dastardy! in not daring to hazard..a patriotic service to their king and country. 1771Johnson Falkland's Isl. Wks. X. 64 During the protectorship of Cromwell, a time of which the patriotick tribes still more ardently desire the return. 1774― Patriot ibid. 88 By the howling of patriotick rage, the nation was for a time exasperated to such madness, that [etc.]. 1833H. Martineau Charmed Sea i. 3 The exiles uplifted one of the patriotic chaunts. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. v. (1880) 85 The threatened invasion of England..roused the patriotic feeling of all classes. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. vii. 79 The predominance of the patriotic party.
b. quasi-n. in pl. Patriotic songs or utterances. nonce-use. (Cf. heroics.)
1899F. Harrison Tennyson, etc. I. 48 A real lover of high poetry..can take delight in..the patriotics of Burns, the war-songs of Campbell.
So patriˈotical a. (rare) = prec.; hence patriˈotically adv., in a patriotic manner.
1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 179 Speeches..against the Bishops were much applauded among the patriotical Party. 1797Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 277 The opposition, whether patriotically or factiously, contending that the ministers had been oblivious of the national glory. 1821Blackw. Mag. IX. 63 Like patriotical folks, all for the good of their country. 1884Sir H. James in Law Times 122/1 This sacrifice, which had been so patriotically made. 189819th Cent. Apr. 523 The so-called patriotical assumption, that France can never be in the wrong.
Add:[2.] c. patriotic front, a nationalist political organization; spec. the name of a Black nationalist organization founded by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo in 1976 to oppose the white Rhodesian government.
1942L. B. Namier Conflicts 40 The depression..everywhere brought new political forces to the surface, violent and brutal—National Socialists and National Radicals, ‘patriotic fronts’ and an ‘Iron Guard’. 1976Times 11 Oct. 1/4 At a joint press conference in Dar es Salaam yesterday, Mr Nkomo and Mr Mugabe announced that they would send a joint ‘Patriotic Front’ delegation to the proposed conference in Geneva. 1978Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. a11/1 Friday's agreement excludes the Militant Patriotic Front, whose guerillas have been at war with Rhodesian forces for five years. |