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Francolatry
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English
Pronunciation
en /fɹæŋˈkɒlətɹi/
en ɒlətɹi 4
Etymology 1
en :af Franco- -latry + 1
Noun
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en France Excessive admiration for French culture, thought or language.
en 1981 British Public Opinion and the Wars of German Unification 412 https://books.google.com/books?id=uOweAAAAMAAJ The Tory Standard (p. 2, cols. 5–6) does not waiver in its die-hard Francolatry.
en 2017 The Descend of Ideas 283–284 https://books.google.com/books?id=UGZQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA283 The past century, and millennium, has seen a resurgence of philosophical sects contending for intellectual supremacy and challenging historians to understand their significance. Neo-positivism and historicism, phenomenology and existentialism, Marxism and critical theory, Freudianism and Neo-Freudianism, structuralism and poststructuralism, analytical philosophy and philosophical hermeneutics, as well as offshoots, revisionisms, and emigrations led by Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Foucault, Derrida, Barthes, and Gusdorf, drawing often – very much in the manner of Cousin a century earlier – on German sources (though the influence operated in the opposite direction, too, as suggested by German ‘Francolatry’).
en 2024 Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouyizan in Haiti Bloomsbury https://books.google.com/books?id=2nz1EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT19 The congregational school, by its elitist nature, quickly became a place of distinction and networking for Haitian high society. Many have considered it a channel for the reproduction of Francolatry orchestrated under the strict scrutiny of Catholic priests and Christians mostly recruited from the confines of the Great Britain. The exclusie taste for the French language is cultivated there by restricting the use of Creole even in the playgrounds. Also, through religious instruction, these schools associated Vodou with a form of diabolical superstition.
Translations
excessive admiration for French culture, thought or language
French: fr francolâtrie f
German: de Frankolatrie f
Italian: it francolatria f
Portuguese: pt francolatria f
Etymology 2
en :af Franco -latry + 1
Noun
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en Franco Excessive admiration for, or worship of, Francisco Franco (1892–1975), Spanish military general and the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death.
en 1958 Ibérica 7 https://books.google.com/books?id=YPIZAQAAMAAJ The document in question, which is calm and perfectly reasoned, examines the phariseeism of the regime and discreetly suggests a constitutional monarchy. Furthermore, it condemns “Francolatry” and urges action by responsible authorities toward bringing the Army to take a definitive step.
Translations
excessive admiration for, or worship of, Francisco Franco
Spanish: es francolatría f
en France