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Meanings of civic spirit in English

Pride in your city.

Synonyms
Examples for "civic pride"
Examples for "civic pride"
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This is not a film about civic pride or the city's comeback.
Reuters
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But now it was almost completed and a matter of much civic pride.
Port O' Gold / A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
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They knew him to be generous and full of civic pride.
The Little Immigrant
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Brummies have always been blessed with an excess of civic pride.
The Guardian
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Mary, who was beginning to develop civic pride, told him they were goblinesque.
The Nest Builder: A Novel
Usage of civic spirit in English
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Marching!Join hands today and take cheer from civic spirit and solidarity.
The Irish Times
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And there are many other manifestations of the new civic spirit.
The Boss and the Machine: A Chronicle of the Politicians and Par...
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Ostracised though he was, he did not lack for civic spirit of a sort.
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
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An enlightened civic spirit triumphed and special knowledge was invoked.
Unleavened Bread
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I'm tremendously interested and I-I'mbeginning to feel the dawning of a civic spirit.
The Net
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With all its civic spirit, Glasgow remains grey, prosaic, intolerable-thechampion platitude of commercial civilisation.
Without Prejudice
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Look you,-'tis civic freedom I would further,-The civic spirit that in former times Was regnant here.
Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans
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Four people explain why they believe a healthy civic spirit is essential for the general well-being of society.
The Irish Times
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There's enormous civic spirit in this country where people want to take control and do things in a different way.
The Guardian
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The civic spirit of Rome and the genius of Hellas began simultaneously to accommodate themselves to the chains of sultanism.
The History of Rome, Book V / The Establishment of the Military ...
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The city has appealed to the " civic spirit" of residents, asking them to anonymously report suspected misuse online.
The Guardian
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The civic spirit was at once the motive and vitalising force of Cicero's eloquence, and still acts as its antiseptic.
From a Cornish Window / A New Edition
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In the most brilliant age of Greece, then, and of Greek art and letters, the civic spirit was the inspiring spirit.
From a Cornish Window / A New Edition
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And for the most part, though little enough endowed with the civic spirit, they abundantly pride themselves on their local permanence.
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages
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But, allowing for changed circumstances, you will find that Juvenal's is just the old civic spirit turned to fierceness by despair.
From a Cornish Window / A New Edition
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Just so, faintly at first and taking shape by degrees, must the germ of civic spirit have come to Prehistoric Man.
Piccadilly Jim
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