Word of the Week: chauvinism (SHŌ-və-nĭz-əm)
Definition
(Noun) Exaggerated patriotism of a bellicose sort; blind enthusiasm for national glory or military ascendancy; the French quality which finds its parallel in British “Jingoism.”
In Context
“The fires of antiforeign chauvinism, long fanned by the bureaucracy, were raging.”
Patrick Smith, Japan: A Reinterpretation, 1997.