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Militancy   Listen
noun
Militancy  n.  
1.
The state of being militant; warfare.
2.
A military spirit or system; militarism.





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"Militancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... set with precious stones. Moreover, they are worn against the middle of the back, where they must be difficult to reach in an emergency. I imagine that the kris, universal though it is, serves as a symbol of former militancy rather than as a fighting weapon, just as the buttons at the back of our tailcoats serve to remind us that their original purpose was to support a sword-belt. But, though the Balinese have made no serious trouble for their Dutch rulers for upward of a decade, ...
— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell
... have assumed a more militant organisation, and have prevailed against and assimilated the pre-existing political organisations, and to all intents and purposes have become this present synthesised World State. Traces of that militancy would, therefore, pervade it still, and a campaigning quality—no longer against specific disorders, but against universal human weaknesses, and the inanimate forces that trouble man—still remain as its ...
— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells


Words linked to "Militancy" :   combativeness, scrappiness, aggressiveness


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