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I didn't realise that you were ugly - too tall, too short, too wide, too lumpy, too dark, too blonde? Aren't we all all beautiful in the eyes of God, Father Steve?
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Yes, of course we are all beautiful in the eyes of God, in much the same way that the most ghastly of babies in beautiful on the eyes of its mother. My "ugly" reference was to "The Ugly American" by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer.
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The title of your post set to me to thinking about gender again. When I first saw Patricentrism, I thought, "surely if it's in reference to the Mother Country, it should be Matricentrism." Then the anna dropped - there is no word to describe devotion to the Motherland, since patriotism is descended directly from pater. So Russians, who are fond of referring to their homeland as Mother Russia, or so I'm told, are right out of luck when it comes to a word describing their maternally nationalistic tendencies.Thinking about this would have troubled me, but I remembered the ultimate Antipodean anti-stress mantra - she'll be right.
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Right you are, sir.
patria = fatherland, native land.
patrimonium = property inherited from a father.
patrius = of a father, paternal, hereditary, ancestral, native.
mater = mother, source, origin.
maternus = of a mother, maternal.
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Predictably enough, people have coined the word "matriotism" to describe love of the mother country. Whilst not in any dictionary, as far as I know, it's probably only a matter of time. Try typing matriotism into your favourite search engine. Here are a couple of samples: http://hpk.felk.cvut.cz/tis/Voc/208.htmlhttp://www.columbia.edu/~jbs39/words.htmlSeems it appears in Catch-22 as well.
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>Whilst not in any dictionary, as far as I know...
oh, it's in the OED2, although it's listed as a "nonce word".
matriotism
nonce-wd. [Altered from patriotism, after L. mQter mother.]
Love of one's mother country or of one's ‘alma mater’.
1856 Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 301, I am delighted with your matriotism ‘Rome, Venice, Cambridge!’ 1885 H. C. Beeching in Academy 14 Feb. 109/2 Though Mr. Lang's matriotism is thus divided, he has only one fatherland.
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