chauvinism (shovinizm)

[ Sir, I have no sympathy with chauvinism of any kind, but, surely, of all kinds that is the worst which obtrudes pitiful national jealousies and rivalries into the realm of science. Huxley, Addre at Harvey Tricentenary, p. 397. chauvinist (shō'vi-nist), n. [ During the Crime an War they [the Slavophils] were known to be among the extreme Chauvinists who urged the nece ity of planting the Greek cro on the desecrated dome of St. Sophia in Constantinople, and hoped to see the Emperor proclaimed "Panslavonic Tsar." D. M. Wallace, Ru ia, p. 411. The Ru ian Chauvinists were flattered by seeing that the "true German Baron," which Bismarck affected to be, followed with much closer attention than any of his col leagues the new liberal movement in our [Ru ia's) Pre and literature. Translated in Lowe's Bismarck, I. 244.