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chauvinism

[shoh-vuh-niz-uhm] / ˈʃoʊ vəˌnɪz əm /
NOUN
extreme devotion to a belief or nation
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WEAK
unbias


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Chauvinism and self- satirization are twinned in the Texas character.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chauvinism, in all its sexual as well as racial aspects, is the real enemy of all men and women who seek the one security that is viable—community—and the one freedom that is transcendant—individuation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Korda's only previous book, published in 1973, was called Male Chauvinism!

From Time Magazine Archive

Socialism, individualism, Chauvinism jostled each other in his brain.

From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Cannan, Gilbert

We do not wish to sow the weeds of Chauvinism, the thorns of fanaticism, the tares of scholastic philosophy.

From Stories and Pictures by Peretz, Isaac Loeb




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