Bellicist

Quick meaning: Bellicist is a noun meaning An adherent of bellicism; one who advocates war.

Meaning

An adherent of bellicism; one who advocates war.

More Meanings

1. Of or relating to bellicism, a bellicist, bellicists, advocating war, who is war-centered or war-oriented.

Example Sentences

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

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.”

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.

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.]

Word Forms

• bellicists

Synonyms for bellicist

Depending on context, synonyms include hawk, militarist, warmonger, warnik, bellicistic, bellicose.

Antonyms for bellicist

Common opposites include dove, pacifist, peacenik, dovish, pacific, pacifistic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include warriorism, warmonger, belligerent, belligerati, militarist, warnik.

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