fatherland
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There was nothing else but themselves they could dedicate themselves to—no patria, no fatherland, no nation as yet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
"We are strongly motivated to defend our fatherland, and this is the best remedy for fear," he said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2023
A new ideology extols the Orthodox Church, the fatherland, the family and the “the spiritual over the material.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
"We want to serve our fatherland," says Mr Fehintola.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2022
No, unfortunately they had never been to the fatherland.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
The idea of independence makes us turn in the graves we call our fatherlands.'
From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill
Millions have experienced the inevitable discomfort of a foreign tradition which makes alien their fatherlands, and strangers of their children.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Henry Seidel Canby
He did not hate men, but predatory institutions, false fatherlands, and all slave-drivers.
From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort
Thus you will disarm the "fatherlands" and "motherlands," and you will reduce the notion of Motherland to the little bit of social importance that it must have.
From Light by Fitzwater Wray
In it might be felt the succession of the ages, and, as it were, the memorials of forgotten fatherlands.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
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