单词 | fatherlandless |
释义 | fatherlandlessadj. Chiefly in German contexts: not having allegiance to a fatherland; unpatriotic. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > [adjective] > unpatriotic unkindc1300 unpatriotic1758 fatherlandless1870 1870 Nation 13 Oct. 234/2 ‘What can you do with these good-for-nothing cosmopolitan loiterers?.. I have at least cut down the list of the fatherlandless Excellencies to one-half of their original number.’ In this way he [sc. Bismarck] went on for an hour. 1898 Daily News 11 July 3/4 A Conservative Deputy at Dirschau lately called five Liberal electors who voted for the Polish candidate ‘Vaterlandlose gesellen’ (unpatriotic ‘Fatherlandless’ fellows). 1906 G. B. Foster Finality Christian Relig. v. 159 Back from the fatherlandless world-theocracy of the Roman Church to a new national self-consciousness. 1915 T. F. A. Smith Soul of Germany 274 Every Socialist, in my opinion, means an enemy to Empire and Fatherland. They are the Fatherlandless enemies of the divine order of things. 2014 R. F. Wetzell Crime & Criminal Justice Mod. Germany i. i. 38 In a demonstration of how alienated the anti-Semitic movement had become from the symbols of the Wilhelmine state, the Staatsbürger Zeitung vowed that it would carry on the struggle against..the fatherland-less rabble. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1870 |
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