What does militation mean?
Militation means (now rare) Conflict, struggle..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(now rare) Conflict, struggle..
To withhold offices form men who are satisfied with their country's constitution, because they do not love the present administration, when they are better qualified than others, would be no less than a militation with the principles of a free government.
How shall they be induced to sympathise with our principles, unless they can be convinced that those principles impel us to sympathise with them in their abhorrence of men and measures, whose iniquity consists in their militation against all principles?
This militation by the long poem against the designs of its poet is fascinating in Paterson and Maximus because their poets keep a careful vigil on the progress of The Cantos yet still do not avoid its fate of self-interrogation for their poems.
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Militation means (now rare) Conflict, struggle..
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To withhold offices form men who are satisfied with their country's constitution, because they do not love the present administration, when they are better qualified than others, would be no less than a militation with the principles of a free government.
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