Citations:matriotism

English citations of matriotism

Noun: Loyalty to hometown, school, or parish

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  • 1919, Judson Welliver, “Cleveland—A Community Character-Sketch”, in Munsey's magazine, volume 67, page 230:
    One wonders if devotion to the ideal of a real home-unit has not helped propagate the spirit of matriotism, of pride in “ our town,” that is so strong in Cleveland.
  • 1992, Jorge A. Bustamante, Clark Winton Reynolds, Raúl A. Hinojosa Ojeda, U.S.-Mexico relations, page 315:
    Migrants generally display a marked sense of nationalism and “matriotism,” a concept which Luis González [1974, 1986] defines as an individual's love of matria, or “little motherland,” something much smaller and sentimetalized than the broader fatherland.
  • 2002, Roger Bartra, Mark Alan Healey, Blood, ink, and culture, page 117:
    [The Mexican state] frequently takes aggressive actions against matriotism, the hometown loyalty, the love for the native soil, and the hopes and dreams of the two thousand municipal minorities. [] The opposition between urban authoritarian patriotism and rural conservative matriotism [] There is a close political relationship between municipal matriotism and central patriotism.

Noun: Love or celebration of a woman's influence upon society

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  • 1907, Dana Webster Bartlett, “Women's Work”, in The Better City: A Sociological Study of a Modern City, page 97:
    Today [women] are studying unpleasant facts [] and by their combined efforts are seeking to right what is wrong. [] “Club wives and mothers [] have become members of the race where once they were members of the family ; their minds and hearts are awake to the needs of the children of other mothers.” The Woman's Club is a place where the college woman can take a post-graduate course in civics ; a place for the cultivation of “matriotism” as one has called it