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

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

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

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

He advocated a strong Austria as a federation of nations to counterbalance Pan-Germanism.

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

He was an eloquent advocate of Pan-Germanism, and, writing to the Figaro in 1905, he outlined a Pan-Germanic alliance of northern Europe and North America.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various