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Chauvinism

2 stages from French to English.

Today it means excessive or prejudiced devotion to one's own group, cause, or gender
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Stage 1 of 2
Nicolas Chauvin
French · 1800s
"a soldier's name"
a soldier famed, likely apocryphally, for his excessive devotion to Napoleon and France
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Stage 2 of 2
chauvinism
English · 1870s
"excessive or biased loyalty to one's own group"
coined from the name for excessive, unreasoning patriotism or group loyalty
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