Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Love of Greece; the principles of the Philhellenes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Love of Greece.
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- noun Love of
Greece .
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- noun admiration for Greece and the Greeks and Greek customs
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Examples
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Large parts of Turkish Anatolia and Thrace were assigned to Greece to satisfy the ambitions of Prime Minister Venizelos and the philhellenism of Lloyd George, or to France to indulge a romantic conceit about her special relationship with the Levant going back to the crusades and the Napoleonic wars.
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The poet Byron was the apotheosis of philhellenism, journeying to Greece to join its fight for independence, and his disappointment in the real-live Greeks he met sounds like so many contemporary encounters of Westerners with the Third World.
Help Is on the Way 2008
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The birthplace of the forerunners of the modern social and civic spirit and the mother of the most genuine philhellenism, the
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various
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When will your Cretan volume, crowned [Untranslatable pun on the words "cretois" and "crete."] with erudition and philhellenism, be finished?
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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Euphrosunes, for government employ, and the memorial survives, attested by bishop and clergy, of a man with a daughter to marry, who being too poor to find a dowry 'had decided on reverting to your Excellency's well-known philhellenism, and with tears in his eyes besought that your
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880
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The literary philhellenism of the present age, and especially its philologic tendency is fast hunting the classic spectres of the heroic times into primeval shade.
Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864
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Its adoption was a triumph of classical philhellenism over common sense, of Cavafy's 'serious and stately' image over reality; and as we have already noted, it has not ceased to be a divisive and stultifying force in the contemporary Greek state.
American Chronicle 2008
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Its adoption was a triumph of classical philhellenism over common sense, of Cavafy's 'serious and stately' image over reality; and as we have already noted, it has not ceased to be a divisive and stultifying force in the contemporary Greek state.
American Chronicle 2008
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