Polonophilia

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noun

Liking of the Polish people.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounPolonophilia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableLiking of the Polish people.

    But this would take a semester-long seminar, in order to deal with two historical conundrums: For one, there are, in fact, many Lithuanian "perspectives" (we must use the plural here), ranging from Polonophilia to Polonophobia.

    2006, The Polish Review, page 3
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    And still I have not yet answered the question of where we must seek the source of, if not Blok's Polonophilia — his Polonophilia I explain partly by his familiarity with our literature—at least, his information, about Poland.

    1943, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, Bulletin ..., page 490

    Even as these elements of the negative image of the Pole — the seditious pan [lord], the "fanatical" Catholic, and so on — were being generated, the cultural mechanisms of Polonophobia were still associated with Polonophilia, the traditionally sympathetic perception of Poland in Russia.

    2004, Russian Studies in History, page 66

Origin

Translations

Polish polonofilia
  • polonofiliaTranslations
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