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semi-patriotic en · ADJ

Etymology

From semi- + patriotic.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of semipatriotic.
    • Although — and there is always an example to be found in the history of this song — there was at least one semi-patriotic sing-along to “Ol' Man River.” 2014, Todd Decker, Who Should Sing 'Ol' Man River'?: The Lives of an American Song, →ISBN:
    • The speech was a well balanced adaptation of rationalism and emotionalism for a semi-scholarly, semi-patriotic, and highly emotional occasion. 1990, Ronald Forrest Reid, Edward Everett: Unionist Orator, →ISBN, page 27:
    • On the subject of a semi-patriotic speech of the Menshevik Cheidze, at the beginning of the war, the president of the Duma, Rodzianko, wrote: “Subsequent events proved the closeness of Cheidze to German circles.” 2017, Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution, →ISBN: