[f. prec. A. 3 + -ISM.] The policy or practices of the jingoes.
1878. A. Hayward, in Corr. (1886), II. 291. Another year must pass away before ‘Jingoism’ receives its death-blow.
1881. Gentl. Mag., Jan., 46. We call it Jingoism in England; in France it is called Chauvinism; and in the United States, Bunkum.
1882. Ld. Derby, in Standard, 5 Jan., 2/3. ‘Jingoism’ … of which I suppose the leading idea to be that no State can be in a healthy condition that is not occasionally pitching into its neighbour.
1885. Pall Mall Gaz., 17 Jan., 1/1. The essential infamy of Jingoism was its assertion as the first law of its being that might was right.
1895. Times, 1 Nov., 3/4. He [the President] puts himself on record against the empty bluster which is the note of jingoism.
So Jingoist = JINGO A. 3 (also attrib.); Jingoistic a., given to or characteristic of jingoism; jingo in style or spirit.
1884. Ch. Times, 28 Nov., 915/2. Of an amusingly Jingoist turn.
1890. N. Lindsey Star, 31 May, 5/4. Terrible jingoists when in opposition.
1885. Spectator, 18 July, 941/1. We are not all Jingoistic noodles in New Zealand.
1894. ‘Max O’Rell,’ John Bull & Co., 105. When the Englishman is in his cups, he grows conservative and jingoistic.
