Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being martial; warlike spirit or propensity; military character.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The quality of being warlike; exercises suitable for war.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The quality of being
warlike ; exercises suitable for war.
Etymologies
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martial + -ism
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Examples
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Today I have felt the magnitude of this event, the martialism of the troops, the organization, the discipline, the impressive silence in this plaza where not even the buzzing of a mosquito is heard, [applause] the attention with which the people are capable of paying to the speakers during the very warm noon hour.
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Whether he was exactly the kind of man to have enjoyed the livelier side of martialism may be the subject of considerable doubt.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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