fatherland
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There was nothing else but themselves they could dedicate themselves to—no patria, no fatherland, no nation as yet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
He says that he is grateful for all those fighting for the interest "of the fatherland", adding: "I bow to your feet."
From BBC ● Feb. 29, 2024
"We are strongly motivated to defend our fatherland, and this is the best remedy for fear," he said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2023
A new ideology extols the Orthodox Church, the fatherland, the family and the “the spiritual over the material.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
He hid his terror in his heart, however, and addressed the stranger: “What country is your fatherland? No hateful and defiling lies, I beg you. Tell me the truth.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The idea of independence makes us turn in the graves we call our fatherlands.'
From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill
Millions have experienced the inevitable discomfort of a foreign tradition which makes alien their fatherlands, and strangers of their children.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby
But since the religious in the Filipinas Islands are not rooted in their fatherlands, but on the contrary regard themselves as exiled therefrom, it is impossible for them to return thither.
From all mountains do I look out for fatherlands and motherlands.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Will they stand with folded arms and see their fatherlands attacked?
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
