Polonophilia

Polonophilia

English

Etymology

Polono- +‎ -philia

Noun

Polonophilia (uncountable)

1. Liking of the Polish people.
   • 1943, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, Bulletin ..., page 490:

     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.

   • 2004, Russian Studies in History, page 66:

     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.

   • 2006, The Polish Review, page 3:

     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.