Germanophilistn.adj.
/ˌdʒəːməˈnɒfᵻlɪst/, /ˌdʒəːməˈnɒfl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˌdʒərməˈnɑfələst/ A. n.
= Germanophile n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [noun] > Germany > person
Germanophilist1864
pro-German1864
Germanophile1876
1864 F. J. Furnivall in Reader 11 June 744 Whether you believe in Diez as an oracle as some Germanophilists do, or doubt him as some English sceptics have done.
1926 H. Carlson in A. E. Senn Lithuania 1940 (2007) ii. 33 Smetona has never tried to conceal the fact that he is a Russophilist and a Germanophilist.
1999 Church Times 3 Sept. 16/5 The British tended to regard him as a Germanophile, even a ‘Boche’.
B. adj.
= Germanophile adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [adjective] > Germany
pro-German1864
Germanophile1882
Germanophilist1900
Teutophile1904
1900 Internat. Monthly 2 607 The governments of the Regency,..and later on the equally germanophilist Duke de Almodovar for once agreed with Senor Canovas del Castillo and the Duke of Tetuan, in considering that the safest policy during a long minority under the regency of a foreign Queen Regent was to steer as clear as possible from foreign conflicts and foreign alliances.
2011 M. Teich Slovakia in Hist. xxiii. 379 The Slovak public..was not Germanophilist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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