patriotic spirit

collocation in English

meaningsofpatrioticandspirit

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patriotic
adjective
uk
/ˌpæt.riˈɒt.ɪk/us
/ˌpeɪ.triˈɑː.t̬ɪk/
showing love for your country and being proud ...
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spirit
noun
uk
/ˈspɪr.ɪt/us
/ˈspɪr.ət/
a particular way of thinking, feeling, or behaving, especially a way that is typical of a particular group of people, an activity, a time, or ...
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(Definition ofpatrioticandspiritfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpatriotic spirit

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Your outfit really shows yourpatrioticspirit.
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Everybody will appreciate thepatrioticspiritin which he spoke, and nothing could augur better for the future than declarations of that kind.
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I believe that you will meet it in a broad, enlightened, andpatrioticspirit.
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They have shown in all these matters a mostpatrioticspirit.
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My country is in danger, and there is sufficient loyal,patrioticspiritto meet that danger in the workshop as in the field.
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We have endeavoured to do that in apatrioticspirit.
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It is easy to bring in thepatrioticspirit.
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That is not acting in a national orpatrioticspirit.
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The words "patrioticspirit" by themselves mean absolutely nothing.
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We are told they have been impressed with the verypatrioticspiritof the delegates who came over here.
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As the danger threatens this country, so thepatrioticspiritof its young men revives.
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Surely that is apatrioticspirit, and there never was a time when such desires can make a stronger appeal to our common sense of patriotism.
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We have had far too little news, and the public in that respect have been starved, so thatpatrioticspirithas lacked a stimulus which it otherwise would have had.
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I think that a great many men will shoulder their responsibilities in a loyal andpatrioticspirit, without having the time or the extra enthusiasm to come forward as volunteers.
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The historian should be the regenerated contemporary of the past, and history a science as instrument of the most genuinepatrioticspirit.
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Lambton called on her to describe his experiences there, and praise thepatrioticspiritof her gift.
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On the green area around the memorial, loudspeaker emissions to fosterpatrioticspiritcan be heard.
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Thepatrioticspiritfrom which they emanated will forever sustain it.
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This version draws power frompatrioticspirit.
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