Pan-Germanism

American  

[pan-jur-muh-niz-uhm] / ˌpænˈdʒɜr məˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.

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Pan-Germanism British  

noun

1. (esp in the 19th century) the movement for the unification of Germany

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Other Word Forms

• Pan-German
  adjective
• Pan-Germanic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Pan-Germanism

First recorded in 1880–85; pan- + Germanism

Example Sentences

Andr� Ch�radame is a stubby, sturdy Norman scholar, now going on 70, who for half a century has been absorbed by the subject of Pan-Germanism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Astounding as it was that Adolf Hitler, exponent of Pan-Germanism, should relinquish so lightly one of the oldest European outposts of German commerce and culture, the details of this mass migration were even more amazing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Washington University's Roland Greene Usher, 70, grey-thatched historian, whose Pan-Germanism, published in 1913, first won the scorn, then the praise, of critics for predicting a major European war stirred up by German ambition.

From Time Magazine Archive

The original theory of Pan-Germanism was the consolidation and unity of the whole German nation corresponding to the movement of the Italians for national unity.

From Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Nosek, Vladimír

He went to Ulster, he pursued prominent Tariff Reformers, he started off to Mexico and came back to investigate Pan-Germanism.

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)