Definition of jingoist

One who advocates an aggressive nationalism; one who vociferously supports a nation's military aims.

- 1919: William Cowper Brann, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=106267209&textreg=1&query=jingoist&id=Bra12Ic The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
- :The term ";" or its equivalent, was applied to Washington and Henry, to Jefferson and Jackson. It was applied to James G. Blaine, the typical American of his time -- a man from beneath whose very toe-nails enough intellect might be scraped to make an hundred Clevelands or McKinleys?. All were jingoes in their day and generation, because all preferred the title of sovereign to that of subject...

- 1988: Jeffrey Hadden and Anson Shupe, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=336229543&tag=Hadden,+Jeffrey+;+Shupe,+Anson:+Televangelism:+Power+and+Politics+on+God%60s+Frontier,+1988&query=jingoist&id=HadPowe Televangelism: Power and Politics on God`s Frontier
- :When liberals did acknowledge the persistence of the covenant theme, they treated it like some atavistic beast, lumping it together with the largely aberrant doctrines of ultra-right-wingers, "Jewish conspiracy" advocates, Nazi sympathizers, and fanatics.

Etymology: From an old British popular song incorporating the phrase "by jingo".

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