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  • noun uncountable The condition of being militant
  • noun countable A hostile or warlike act

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  • noun a militant aggressiveness

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Examples

  • However, Islamic militance is not limited to Arab Muslims, so using the term "Muslim" in this case is not inaccurate.

    huge, frustrated, hopeless 2005

  • These immodest dressers have a militance about them and when you make objection to their public nudity, they screech and cast dust in the air, vilify you and your personality and you are likely to get the cold treatment, so much, that you eventually leave, which is what they want.

    The Beautiful, Soft, Flowing, Modest, Clothing Depicted in the Art of Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens (1823-1906) 2009

  • The militance about taxes began to escalate steeply after George H.W. Bush vowed at the 1988 convention, "Read my lips: no new taxes."

    In which we stop the presses for two honest Republicans 2010

  • What does Obama actually say about the sort of anti-American, anti-white, and anti-Semitic militance symbolized for him by Rafiq?

    Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010

  • We got a hint of that in Chapter Two, but the fuller story of the decade-long transformation of NAM from militance to pragmatism is well worth telling.

    Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010

  • We got a hint of that in Chapter Two, but the fuller story of the decade-long transformation of NAM from militance to pragmatism is well worth telling.

    Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010

  • Dave Weigel of the Washington Post has accused Sarah Palin of "irresponsible and pathetic bullying" in her quick militance to demonize McGinniss as some sort of sleazy stalker with an eye on the daily activities of her children.

    Sarah Palin Erects Border Fence Around Her House (PHOTO) 2010

  • What does Obama actually say about the sort of anti-American, anti-white, and anti-Semitic militance symbolized for him by Rafiq?

    Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010

  • As historian Erica Doss has shown, in the 1960s the Black Panther leadership, heirs no less to this legacy than the Diggers, drew on it to create an image of masculine aggression and streetwise militance in their dress, art, and political culture ....

    Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

  • Old friends were alienated by her increasingly kooky and embattled militance.

    Early Right-Wing Whackwits delagar 2009

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