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
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 once again reiterate to Ecowas or any other adventurer our firm determination to defend our fatherland," the statement, which was read out on TV, said.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2023
"This public holiday marks the inseparability of our centuries-old history, the greatness and glory of the fatherland," Putin told the assembled dignitaries.
From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2023
Once I hoped it would become a fatherland to me, since I had lost my own.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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
Alien to me, and a mockery, are the present-day men, to whom of late my heart impelled me; and exiled am I from fatherlands and motherlands.
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
He did not hate men, but predatory institutions, false fatherlands, and all slave-drivers.
From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort
In it might be felt the succession of the ages, and, as it were, the memorials of forgotten fatherlands.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
Exiles shall ye be from all fatherlands and forefather-lands!
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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