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Meaning of war-weariness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. A state of exhaustion brought on by fighting in a war.
    uncountable
  2. Weariness of war.
    uncountable

Equivalents

Deutsch Kriegsmüdigkeit
Suomi sotaväsymys
Svenska krigströtthet

Examples

“Bouts of war-weariness now began to grip me from time to time, rather after the fashion of bouts of malaria.”
“One common imputed cause of this changed attitude toward force⟳ in the nineteenth century and the anomalous peace of that century in general is war-weariness.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

war-work war-worker war, warfare War. warabi warabimochi

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