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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chauvinism \Chau"vin*ism\, n. [F. chauvinisme, from Chauvin, a character represented as making grotesque and threatening displays of his attachment to his fallen chief, Napoleon I., in 1815.] Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause hence absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism. -- {Chau"vin*ist}, n. -- {Chau`vin*is"tic}, a. Note: To have a generous belief in the greatness of one's country is not chauvinism. It is the character of the latter quality to be wildly extravagant, to be fretful and childish and silly, to resent a doubt as an insult, and to offend by its very frankness. --Prof. H. Tuttle. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: chauvinist n 1: a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind 2: an extreme bellicose nationalist [syn: {jingoist}, {jingo}, {flag-waver}, {hundred-percenter}]
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