chauvinism

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chau·vin·ism / ˈshōvəˌnizəm/ • n. exaggerated or aggressive patriotism. ∎  excessive or prejudiced loyalty or support for one's own cause, group, or gender: a bastion of male chauvinism.ORIGIN: late 19th cent.: named after Nicolas Chauvin, a Napoleonic veteran noted for his extreme patriotism, popularized as a character by the Cogniard brothers in Cocarde Tricolore (1831).

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