Definition of "matriotism" [matriotism]

• Hometown, school, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism (noun)
• Love or celebration of a woman's influence upon society; a women's equivalent to male patriotism (noun)
• Love of the motherland, as opposed to patriotism as love of the fatherland. (noun)
• Pacifist patriotism; love of society as opposed to love of the state (noun)
• Devotion to Mother Earth, ecology, sustainability, peace and the survival of the human species as long as possible. (noun)

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• "Much as I wish I could take credit for the word matriotism, another woman wrote to me and gave me the concept."
• "Much as I wish I could take credit for the word "matriotism," another woman wrote to me and gave me the concept."
• "I will never forgive myself for not trying to counteract the false patriotism he was raised on with a true sense of matriotism."