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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Patriotism \Pa"tri*ot*ism\, n. [Cf. F. patriotisme.]
Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country;
the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which
inspires one to serve one's country. --Berkley.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
patriotism
n : love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it [syn: {nationalism}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one
ambitious to illuminate his name
In Dr Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the
last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened
but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first
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