Meaning of antiwarrior | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who has antiwar beliefs.
2. One who is the antithesis of a warrior.

Equivalents

Examples

“There is only one candidate McCarthy can hurt—the Democrat—and the fairness doctrine/equal-time tradition guarantees that the old antiwarrior will get his message through to distant-drummer marchers.”

“Saladin's prophetic namesake, by any account as obviously an antiwarrior as one can imagine, seems at first too antithetical a character for comparison with the anti-Crusader par excellence, and therein lies the hagiographical dynamic at work.”

“Buoyed by their success, they have decided to take on Kerry, who is particularly irksome to the Smedleys, because several of them knew him back when he was a fellow antiwarrior in Vietnam Veterans Against the War.”

“And then. . . there was this gradual evolution to passionate antiwarrior.”

“They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the sun and they rode out of that vanished sea like burn phantoms with the legs of the animals kicking up the spume that was not real and they were lost in the sun and lost in the lake and they shimmered and slurred together and separated again and they augmented by planes in lurid avatars and began to coalesce and there began to appear above them in the dawnbroached sky a hellish likeness of their ranks riding huge and inverted and the horses' legs incredibly elongate trampling down the high thin cirrus and the howling antiwarriors pendant from their mounts immense and chimeric and the high wild cries carrying that flat and barren pan like the cries of souls broke through some misweave in the weft of things into the world below.”

“Quixote becomes our favorite antihero, antiprophet, antiwarrior, anti-hunter-gatherer—and this is good medicine to keep men healthy.”

“While Barak oscillates between an adequate warrior and a week warrior, Sisera is introduced as a capable warrior who oppresses the Israelites with nine hundred chariots of iron and then steeply decines to an antiwarrior status with no opportunity for the rehabilitation of his manhood.”

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