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Defeatism   Listen
noun
defeatism  n.  Acceptance of the inevitability of defeat.






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"Defeatism" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Treaty of London, but not more.... If the Government definitely claims and demands the whole of Dalmatia, then the agitation is justified; but if the Government does not demand it, then we repeat that to favour and not to curb the movement is the worst kind of Defeatism, for it creates among Italians a state of mind tending to transform the sense of a great victory into the sense of a great defeat ... quite apart from the intransigeance which this provokes in the Yugoslav camp." It was in vain. And when Bissolati, having resigned from ...
— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein



Words linked to "Defeatism" :   surrender



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