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patriot

Person who loves his or her country and supports and defends it. In colonial America, the revolutionaries who fought for independence of the colonies from Britain called themselves Patriots. Those who remained loyal to Britain were called Loyalists.



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DURING the Civil War a Patriot was passing through the State of Maryland with a pass from the President to join Grant's army and see the fighting.
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He is a patriot--mark me, the greatest patriot of us all.
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The proceedings under Lycurgus were less regular; but as far as the advocates for a regular reform could prevail, they all turned their eyes towards the single efforts of that celebrated patriot and sage, instead of seeking to bring about a revolution by the intervention of a deliberative body of citizens.
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