chauvinist

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind
noun an extreme bellicose nationalist

See chauvinism. Piecewise doublet of Calvinist, since both terms come from different forms of the same name.

You're talking to an unreconstructed male chauvinist." — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
Manufacturers who suffered by English competition and Chauvinists who dreaded her supremacy at sea were joining in a hue and cry against Pitt;[941] and Mirabeau gained credit by posing as the national champion. — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
If you add to this a Chauvinist English patriotism, expressed in all the historical dramas, a patriotism according to which the English throne is something sacred, Englishmen always vanquishing the French, killing thousands and losing only scores, Joan of Arc regarded as a witch, and the belief that Hector and all the Trojans, from whom the English came, are heroes, while the Greeks are cowards and traitors, and so forth,--such is the view of life of the wisest teacher of life according to his greatest admirers. — Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on Shakespeare, Leo, graf Tolstoy

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