Nationalitarian

Quick meaning: Nationalitarian is a noun meaning Supporting an inclusive concept of nationhood that embraces all members of a society and not just a dominant elite.

Meaning

Supporting an inclusive concept of nationhood that embraces all members of a society and not just a dominant elite.

Example Sentences

Van Gennep is adamant that the nationalitarian sentiment precedes modernity, and he quotes a variety of cases in which the existence of such sentiment can be reasonably assumed.

And the birth of nations implies many artifices: Not only are they constituted in an active struggle against the imperial or evolved systems, the feudal systems, and the autonomous cities, but they crush their own "minorities," in other words, minoritarian phenomena that could be termed "nationalitarian," which work from within and if need be turn to the old codes to find a greater degree of freedom.

Word Forms

• nationalitarians

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nationalitarianism, pronationalist, nationalism, nationalist, supernationalism, supranationalism.

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