unnational

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ national.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æʃənəl

Adjective

unnational (comparative more unnational, superlative most unnational)

1. Not national; going against a nation or its policies.
   • 1859, Thomas Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil,‎^[1]:

     It was not, then, to be wondered at, that the inhabitants of these distant provinces, who, only a year before, had welcomed me as their liberator from Portuguese oppression, and as the representative of constitutional authority, should now be dissatisfied with what they rightly considered an unnational system of government--preferring to submit to a bad government of their own choosing rather than to one thus arbitrarily imposed upon them.

   • 1905, Joseph Conrad, Notes on Life and Letters‎^[2]:

     It is impossible to suppose that a State of Russia's power and antecedents would tolerate a privileged community (of, to Russia, unnational complexion) within the body of the Empire.

   • 1920, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of Birkenhead, The Story of Newfoundland‎^[3]:

     Even the second project, which was unled, uninspired, unnational, and almost unconscious, and which began and continued as though in obedience to some irresistible and unchangeable natural and economic law, assumed different shapes and semblances, as it blended or refused to blend with the patriotic projects of the idealists.

Anagrams

• annulation