[f. as prec. + -ISM: cf. F. compatriotisme.] The position of being compatriots; compatriotic feeling or sympathy.
1735. Lond. Mag., IV. June, 314/2. When an innocent, upright, virtuous, conscientious Man is seized by the Inquisition, and condemn’d to the Flames, how easily is Christianity, Compatriotism, Relation, Kindred, every good and kind Affection, brought to give Way to the Opinion of the Duty of destroying an Heretick?
1794. J. Gifford, ed. Resid. France (1797), II. 103. Two young Englishmen, with whom I used sometimes to converse in French, without acknowledging our compatriotism.
1795. S. J. Pratt, Glean. thro. Wales, etc., 34. Thus, gentle traveller, having conducted you to Delft, which is a centrical point in the seven Provinces, I might consider the dues of urbanity and compatriotism fairly performed, and leave you to yourself, wishing, that whatever be your tract, satisfaction may be the result. Ibid., 156. I glanced at the excellent behaviour of a publican, whose house I should, therefore, very strongly recommend to the British passenger, as well in compatriotism to the one, as justice to the other.
1864. Mayhew, Germ. Life & Mann., I. 119. We in the hospitality of compatriotism, cheerfully consented to show [them] … the sights and curiosities of the town in which we were resident.
1892. W. D. Howells, A Little Swiss Sojourn, 99–100. It was part of our mission to lunch at the most gorgeous of the hotels, and to look upon such of our fellow-countrymen as we might see there, after our long seclusion at Villeneuve; and we easily found all the splendor and compatriotism we wanted.
