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Scotophilia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A love for the Scots or for Scotland. uncountable

    "As Linda Colley points out, Scotophobia rapidly turns into Scotophilia. The Highlands, instead of producing warriors who threatened the empire, as had happened in 1745, supplies the soldier who will defend and die for it[…]"

Etymology

From Scoto- + -philia.

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