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
On social media, he wrote that a father should teach his sons how to protect their family, people and fatherland.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2022
When they were finished, they stood and made a toast to the fatherland.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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
Exiles shall ye be from all fatherlands and forefather-lands!
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
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
But since the religious in the Filipinas Islands are not rooted in their fatherlands, but on the contrary regard themselves as exiled therefrom, it is impossible for them to return thither.
