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semipatriotic

semipatriotic adjective: partially patriotic.

Adjective

semipatriotic (not comparable)

  1. Partially patriotic.
    • Dazed, like sleepwalkers, Washingtonians clustered that evening and late into the night in Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue. They sang the National Anthem and other patriotic or semipatriotic songs, and when they tired of singing, they stood, or sat, or even knelt on the grass, simply...1970, Adolph A. Hoehling, America's road to war: 1939-1941, page 163
    • Accordingly, the so-called "civic religions" developed; these were semireligious and semipatriotic in character, and all residents were expected to participate in them.1973, Jacob Bernard Agus, The evolution of Jewish thought, page 81

Examples of semipatriotic in a sentence

  • By 1940 the transition of May Day from a Socialist to a semipatriotic celebration was complete.2002, Mariano Ben Plotkin, Mañana es San Perón: A Cultural History of Perón's Argentina, →ISBN, page 49:
  • Another group whom he attacked in his sermon were those semipatriotic officials who had served Prussia during the War of Liberation without any real sense of purpose.2013, Jerry F. Dawson, Friedrich Schleiermacher: The Evolution of a Nationalist, →ISBN:

Forms of semipatriotic

alternative formsemi-patriotic

Origin of semipatriotic

From semi- + patriotic.

Questions about semipatriotic

What does semipatriotic mean?
Semipatriotic means partially patriotic.
How do you use semipatriotic in a sentence?
By 1940 the transition of May Day from a Socialist to a semipatriotic celebration was complete.
What part of speech is semipatriotic?
Semipatriotic is an adjective.

Words near semipatriotic in the dictionary

  1. semipartial
  2. semipartitioned
  3. semipastoral
  4. semipasty
  5. semipatriarchal
  6. semipatriotic
  7. semipeace
  8. semipeak
  9. semiped
  10. semipeds
  11. semipedunculated

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