amor patriae
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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As Americans consider the survival of their own amor patriae we might reflect on just how old our story is.
From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2017
No man possessed more of the amor patriae.
From The True George Washington [10th Ed.] by Ford, Paul Leicester
He replied in one line of Virgil, "Vincet amor patriae laudumque immensa cupido."
From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
The social virtues were unknown, the amor patriae became a chimera.
From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
It is but the English amor patriae carried to too great an excess.
From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick
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