patriotismn.

1716 Polit. State Great Brit. 468 Why has the Spirit of Patriotism been so much wanting in Gentlemen, as not to represent to the King, or in this House, the Crimes of those he employs in his Service?

c1740 Visct. Bolingbroke Idea Patriot King iv. 27 Patriotism must be founded in great Principles, and supported by great Virtues.

1786 Independent Chron. (Boston, Mass.) 12 Oct. 2/2 It is time to speak out, and to rouse the torpid patriotism of men, who have every thing to lose by the subversion of an excellent Constitution.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1775 I. 478 [Johnson:] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. iv. 194 He..continued his exertions, with the courage and patriotism of a Wallace.

1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet II. 68 Patriotism—Too often the hatred of other countries disguised as the love of our own.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 146 It shows the strength of local, as distinguished from national, patriotism;..the ideas of municipal freedom which were growing up.

1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South iii. i. 218 What went with this, again, was a lush flowering of the old local patriotism and particularism native to the South.

1994 C. McWilliam Debatable Land (1995) vi. 130 He had a great urge to patriotism, yet what was his country, Scotland or America?—the one too small, the other too large in his view.