jingoist
English
Etymology
Noun
jingoist (plural jingoists)
- One who advocates an aggressive nationalism; one who vociferously supports a nation's military aims.
- The U.S. Founding Fathers, Confederate leaders, European colonists, Adolf Hitler, Egyptian pharaohs, and Roman emperors were all prime examples of jingoists in history.
- 1919: William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
- The term "jingoist;" or its equivalent, was applied to Washington and Henry, to Jefferson and Jackson. It was applied to James G. Blaine, the typical American of his time -- a man from beneath whose very toe-nails enough intellect might be scraped to make an hundred Clevelands or McKinleys. All were jingoes in their day and generation, because all preferred the title of sovereign to that of subject...
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one who advocates an aggressive nationalism, one who vociferously supports a nation's military aims
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chauvinist — see chauvinist
Adjective
jingoist (comparative more jingoist, superlative most jingoist)
- Jingoistic; extremely supportive of warlike foreign policy.
- 1988: Jeffrey Hadden and Anson Shupe, Televangelism: Power and Politics on God`s Frontier
- When liberals did acknowledge the persistence of the covenant theme, they treated it like some atavistic beast, lumping it together with the largely aberrant doctrines of ultra-right-wingers, "Jewish conspiracy" advocates, Nazi sympathizers, and jingoist fanatics.
- 1988: Jeffrey Hadden and Anson Shupe, Televangelism: Power and Politics on God`s Frontier
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extremely supportive of warlike foreign policy
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