philo-Germanadj.n.

1848 Standard. 2 Nov. 2/1 So furious became the philo-German passion, that men made a character as authors by putting their English words into the barbarous German collocation, an admirable collocation for concealing the absence of ideas; and some of our newspapers piqued themselves upon their ‘High German Style’.

1856 Sat. Rev. 21 June 171/2 When, in the summer of 1855, these Philo-German Germans looked round upon their country, they saw Prussia standing in an isolated position.

1892 C. M. Andrews Old Eng. Manor 2 This Philo-German spirit..soon began to develop utopian conceptions of the fundamental rights of man.

1897 Daily News 14 Jan. 3/2 He was attached to the philo-German Ambassador as a sort of check upon him.

1961 L. Fermi Mussolini (1966) xxi. 384 The news that the Western powers contemplated a ‘democratic bloc’ hardened the duce in his philo-German policy.

2001 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 16 Nov. b2 The Philo-German Neue Galerie has just arrived on Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue.

1856 Sat. Rev. 27 Dec. 775/2 The number before us is occupied almost entirely with matters interesting only to Germans and philo-Germans.

1886 M. Müller tr. J. W. von Goethe in Contemp. Rev. June 786 He [sc. G. Moir] may stand forth as an individual person in the Chorus of Philo-Germans [Ger. Philo-Germanen], as a distinct individual.