semipatriotic

English

Alternative forms

• semi-patriotic

Etymology

From semi- +‎ patriotic.

Adjective

semipatriotic (not comparable)

1. Partially patriotic.
   • 1970, Adolph A. Hoehling, America's road to war: 1939-1941, page 163:

     Dazed, like sleepwalkers, Washingtonians clustered that evening and late into the night in Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue. They sang the National Anthem and other patriotic or semipatriotic songs, and when they tired of singing, they stood, or sat, or even knelt on the grass, simply staring at the now-darkened Executive Mansion, even as they or possibly others might turn their eyes toward the heavens, hoping, beseeching. . . .

   • 1973, Jacob Bernard Agus, The evolution of Jewish thought, page 81:

     Accordingly, the so-called "civic religions" developed; these were semireligious and semipatriotic in character, and all residents were expected to participate in them.

   • 2002, Mariano Ben Plotkin, Mañana es San Perón: A Cultural History of Perón's Argentina, →ISBN, page 49:

     By 1940 the transition of May Day from a Socialist to a semipatriotic celebration was complete.

   • 2013, Jerry F. Dawson, Friedrich Schleiermacher: The Evolution of a Nationalist, →ISBN:

     Another group whom he attacked in his sermon were those semipatriotic officials who had served Prussia during the War of Liberation without any real sense of purpose.