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/pˈæsɪfɪst/ Listen

noun

pacifist n.

A person opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes.

Synonyms: pacificist, disarmer.

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.

adjective

pacifistic, pacifist adj. Adhering to pacifism; opposed to war; of people.

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Etymology of 'Pacifist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pacifist" Quotes from Famous Books

... inside them, heartily detested. Now nobody detests Jesus, though many who have been tormented in their childhood in his name include him in their general loathing of everything connected with the word religion; whilst others, who know him only by misrepresentation as a sentimental pacifist and an ascetic, include him in their general dislike of that type of character. In the same way a student who has had to "get up" Shakespear as a college subject may hate Shakespear; and people who dislike the theatre may include Moliere in that dislike without ever having ...

— Preface to Androcles and the Lion - On the Prospects of Christianity • George Bernard Shaw

... as a pacifist. There is nothing in the constitution of man that makes pacifism anything but a dream. Man is largely ruled by fear and hate, and it is not possible to imagine an individual or a race that under sufficient provocation will not fight. ...

— Crime: Its Cause and Treatment • Clarence Darrow

... dock no friends greeted her. She did not notice that her arrival was noted by a certain Mr. Larrey, who had been detailed to watch her and saw with some pride how pretty she was. "It'll be a pleasure to keep an eye on her," he told a luckless colleague who had a long-haired pacifist professor allotted to him. But Marie Louise's mystic squire had not counted on her stopping in New York for only a day and then setting forth on a long, hot, stupid train-ride of two days to the little town of ...

— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes

... precisely the same thoughts and the same problems which exercise the more scholarly brains of to-day. Erasmus, as his Pan-German friends liked to remind him, was a sort of German, but he was, nevertheless, what we should now call a Pacifist. He can see nothing good in war and he eloquently sets forth what he regards as its evils. It is interesting to observe, how, even in its small details as well as in its great calamities, war brought precisely the same ...

— Essays in War-Time - Further Studies In The Task Of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

... "for soon the contagion of it will spread until it reaches our own shores. On the one side Mr. Bryan will censure the Administration for being too militaristic, and on the other we will find Mr. Roosevelt criticizing us because we are too pacifist in ...

— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty

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