Unnationality
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A lack of national feeling and loyalty. uncountable
"I could not find rest in the narrow views of the so-called Evangelicals, and clung to the Church of England, and so far fought them; but their hatred of the Reformation, their leaning to a visible centre of unity for the Church, the essence of Popery, their unnationality, for they can have no notion of a national life; their cramped and formal dogmatism; their fearful doctrine of sin after baptism, and many other things of the same cast, revolted me long since."
Example
More examples"I could not find rest in the narrow views of the so-called Evangelicals, and clung to the Church of England, and so far fought them; but their hatred of the Reformation, their leaning to a visible centre of unity for the Church, the essence of Popery, their unnationality, for they can have no notion of a national life; their cramped and formal dogmatism; their fearful doctrine of sin after baptism, and many other things of the same cast, revolted me long since."
Etymology
From un- + nationality (“nationalism or patriotism”).
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