amor patriae

American  

[ah-mohr pah-tree-ahy, ey-mawr pey-tree-ee] / ˈɑ moʊr ˈpɑ triˌaɪ, ˈeɪ mɔr ˈpeɪ triˌi /

noun

Latin.

1. love of one's country; patriotism.

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amor patriae British  

/ ˈæmɔː ˈpætrɪˌiː /

noun

1. love of one's country; patriotism

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Example Sentences

He admitted that slaveholding rendered his own class depraved “despots,” and destroyed the “amor patriae” of their bondsmen.

From The Guardian

But as we look deeply into just what our own amor patriae means, and whether it can hold together, we might think hard about what inscriptions we want written on the memory stones of our own times.

From The Guardian

As Americans consider the survival of their own amor patriae we might reflect on just how old our story is.

From The Guardian

The most that could be asked from governments of the Old World was to promote virtue and to maintain justice; honor, "amor patriae" and fear were the essential principles on which rested the governments described by Montesquieu.

From Project Gutenberg

Boswell asked him how he, who confessed to his love of society and particularly of the society of learned and cultivated men, could be content to pass his life in an island where no such advantages were to be had; to which Paoli replied at once— "Vincit amor patriae laudumque immensa cupido."

From Project Gutenberg