Definitions
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- noun Adherent of
bellicism , advocate of war, one who is war-centered or war-oriented. - adjective Of or relating to
bellicism , a bellicist, bellicists, advocating war, who is war-centered or war-oriented.
Etymologies
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From Latin bellicus ("of or pertaining to war; warlike") and the suffix -ist; possibly adapted from the French neologism belliciste (about Bismarck, 1871; in Émile Faguet, 1908).
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Examples
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Anglophobia is always liable to reversal, hence that fairly common spectacle, the pacifist of one war who is a bellicist in the next.
Notes on Nationalism 1945
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Of course, to shoot straight is so much easier than to think straight, and I suppose at bottom the bellicist believes that the latter is a hopeless object since "man is not a thinking animal."
Peace Theories and the Balkan War Norman Angell 1919
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MarÃa Aznar argument was the justified his bellicist stance on famous and falses assumptions that weapons of very soon were massive proved as wrong destructions
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