Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Adhering to pacifism; opposed to war; -- of people.
- noun A person opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes.
- noun A person whose strong belief in pacifism causes him/her to refuse to participate in military activities, especially one who refuses to be drafted into the armed forces.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who loves, supports, or favours
peace ; one who is pro-peace. - noun One who avoids
violence . - noun One who opposes
violence and isanti-war .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective opposed to war
- noun someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
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Examples
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If the term pacifist means "strongly opposed to war except in rare circumstances" then Channing was a pacifist, as is almost everybody.
Philocrites: Imagine all the Statements of Conscience... 2006
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If you accept this, it leads to what I call pacifist-anarchism, a view I was committed to for a while in high school and my first year of college.
Vernon Smith on Globalization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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An objection to coercion rooted in pacifist-anarchism evolved into the objections to coercion that inform modern libertariansim.
Another Herring, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Why do you beleive that to be a pacifist is wrong??
Iran War Resolution May Be Passed Next Week « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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One such person whom no one could credibly describe as a knee-jerk pacifist is retired Army Col. Pete Mansoor.
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Elvis (#41): being a pacifist is not a sign of weakness.
Think Progress » Bush Said His Nominees Won’t Change Their Minds In 20 Years 2005
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A pacifist is working in some job which gives him access to important military information, and is approached by a German secret agent.
As I Please 1944
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She identified as a pacifist, socialist and member of the IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World.
Democracy Now! 2009
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She identified as a pacifist, socialist and member of the IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World.
Democracy Now! 2009
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And according to Lelyvard, Gandhi the pacifist was a wife-beater, denied sex to his wife for decades, was purported to be a "celibate" living life as an ascetic, but actually was a pedophile who ritualized sleeping naked with underage girls in order to test "the ferocity of his sexual desires," and at one point left his wife for a male lover.
Irene Monroe: The Gandhi None of Us Knew Irene Monroe 2011
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