Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The belief that disputes between nations can and should be settled peacefully.
- noun Opposition to war or violence as a means of resolving disputes.
- noun Such opposition demonstrated by refusal to participate in military action.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable.
- noun The belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The doctrine that
disputes (especially between countries) should be settled without recourse toviolence - noun The active
opposition to such violence, especially therefusal to take part inmilitary action
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable
- noun the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pacifism.
Examples
-
But you are willing to use the label pacifism, and are willing to trace your whole life to the moment in which you adopted that word as what you were going to to be about and doing.
-
Schreiber's "absolute" commitment to what he calls pacifism will not help him argue with those who hold an equally "absolute" commitment to, say, the virtues of "struggle."
Tolerating Terrorism Marshall, Rachelle 1979
-
Hawk & Dove would be interesting, seeing two brothers debate militarism and pacifism from a Japanese perspective.
More manga remakes 2009
-
Wonderful work here from Turner, and there may be a handful of others, but it feels like pacifism is some sort of black sin in these days of “support the troops” no matter their mission.
brian turner | here, bullet « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
-
But as I've emphasized, one person's pacifism is highly unlikely to change the outcome of a war, so in marginalist terms, it isn't really a cost.
Asymmetric Sell-Outs, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
-
The fact that the author seems to so terribly miss the point of pacifism is odd because another strong message that he tries to convey in this book is that there is something human in all of us that we can all recognize and that our shared humaness has nothing to do with our beliefs about any particlular invisible diety.
Archive 2008-10-01 John Storhm 2008
-
In contrast to contemporary feminist anti-militarist pronouncements that the logical outcome of women's innate pacifism is abstention and objection to all wars, Parren presented a hybrid archetype which carefully fused the anti-militarism embodied in the 'Moral Mother' (although she at no point articulated it as such or used the term herself) and the strength and independence of the 'Just Warrior' into a unified personality.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
-
The fact that the author seems to so terribly miss the point of pacifism is odd because another strong message that he tries to convey in this book is that there is something human in all of us that we can all recognize and that our shared humaness has nothing to do with our beliefs about any particlular invisible diety.
Boook Review: The End Of Faith John Storhm 2008
-
My dad's sense of pacifism is only outweighed by his sense of responsibility, which is why he didn't high-tail it to Canada four years earlier than he did.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
-
My dad's sense of pacifism is only outweighed by his sense of responsibility, which is why he didn't high-tail it to Canada four years earlier than he did.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.