Serbism

Serbism

English

Etymology

Serb +‎ -ism

Noun

Serbism (uncountable)

1. (countable) A word or idiom of the Serbian language (that has been borrowed by another language).
2. (uncountable) Nationalistic ideology declaring being Serbian the highest value
   • 1935, Henri Pozzi, Black Hand Over Europe: Consisting of War is Coming Again

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

   • 1979, Lazo Mojsov, The Macedonian Historical Themes

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

   • 2002, Jasna Dragović-Soso, Saviours of the Nation: Serbia's Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism

     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 ...

   • 2003, Dejan Djokić, Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918-1992

     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 ...

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