Serbism

plural Serbisms

1. countablerhetoricA linguistic feature of Serbian language, especially a Serbian idiom or phrasing that appears in some other language.
2. uncountableusuallyAn attitude, custom, or other feature that is characteristic for Serbs.
3. uncountableusuallyEsteem for and emulation of cultural and ethnic heritage of Serbs.

   Synonyms: Serbophilia

4. uncountableNationalistic ideology declaring that being a Serb should be the highest cultural or political priority.

   "A battle lost to the Bulgarians in Macedonia will be for Serbia and Serbism the Kosovo Battle lost a second time round.

   1979, Lazo Mojsov, The Macedonian Historical Themes

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   In the meantime, Serb professors and diplomats were affirming the integral Serbism of Bulgarian Macedonia, and thus peacefully paving the way for war.

   1935, Henri Pozzi, Black Hand Over Europe: Consisting of War is Coming Again

   Only a small group of scholars has made intellectuals and their national ideas the object of their analyses, and they examine principally the evolving visions of ‘Yugoslavism’, the various understandings of ‘Serbism’ and the complementarity and tensions between these two identitities^([sic – meaning identities]).⁸

   2002, Jasna Dragović-Soso, ‘Saviours of the Nation’: Serbia’s Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism, page 4

   His Yugoslavism was replaced by a version of Serbism, according to which the Serbs should strive for a predominantly Serb state, at the same time preserving Serb national identity of all the Serbs forced, by foreign powers, to live outside that state.¹⁹

   2003, Dejan Djokić, editor, Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918–1992, →ISBN, page 260