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

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Etymology

Origin of Pan-Germanism

First recorded in 1880–85; pan- + Germanism

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Example Sentences

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Pan-Germanism

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

Dr. Michaelis was more given to Pan-Germanism than his predecessor.

From In the World War by Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz

Germany, suffering from Pan-Germanism, collected several thousand Russian Poles who had settled in Germany, and put them across the frontier.

From The Story of Russia by R. Van Bergen

What is the meaning of the prefix "pan" in Pan-Slavism, Pan-Germanism, Pan-Serbism?

From A School History of the Great War by Armand Jacques Gerson

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