bellicist

Definitions

An adherent of bellicism; one who advocates war.

Equivalents

Examples

“The bellicist was sure to advocate an end⟳ to the policy of appeasement.”

“Or, if you deem that that word connotes non-resistance, though to the immense bulk of Pacifists it does not, you would be an anti-Bellicist, to use⟳ a dreadful word coined by M. Emile Faguet in the discussion of this matter⟳. [Refers to the book: Émile Faguet, Le Pacifisme (French), 1908.]”

“As for what are called ‘war books,’ whether written from the pacifist or bellicist point⟳ of view⟳, more or less brilliant reporting with emphatic or cynical anecdotes, surely there has been enough of them in the United States as well as in France and in England.”

“It may be that this standard definition errs, in representing every state structure⟳ as essentially based on conflict: it involves, as the writer pointed out in an address delivered long ago in 1915, a “bellicist theory of state structure⟳.” […] It may be well, therefore, to discard the “bellicist” idea of a state essentially based on conflict and involving a superior body which forcibly imposes its will on the mass. [Refers to the paper: Dr. Thomas Baty, "The Bellicist Theory of State Structure⟳", 1915.]”

“British historian Michael Howard introduced the term bellicist to refer⟳ to cultures “almost universal in the past, far from extinct in our own⟳ day, in which the setting of contentious issues by armed conflict is regarded as natural, inevitable and right.””

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