Philopolemic

Quick meaning: Philopolemic is an adjective meaning (rare) Exalting or supporting conflict or war.

Meaning

(rare) Exalting or supporting conflict or war.

More Meanings

1. (rare) Fond of polemics or controversy.

Example Sentences

And what after all was this philopolemic building but a mausoleum in need of a body? His conscience thus quietened, Pascoe unscrewed the top of the urn, took out a handful of dust, examined it for fear, found it, […]

[H]e dropped his title, which has since remained in abeyance; all of which was done with such secrecy as would have been successful had he been fighting a less diabolical and philopolemic enemy than the descendants of the deeply-wronged and unforgiving Evangeline.

When absorption occurs at the close of a poem, the preceding philopolemic posture is suddenly shriven; the surprise, especially in the non-vigilant reader, is the lack of reasonable expectation that there could be such sudden foci that illuminate, the yearning for situations felicificative, after so much negatory vision that usually antedates the finale.

[L]et us direct our attention to what Plato and his best interpreter Proclus have transmitted to us concerning Minerva, who as a mundane deity is connected with ether, and has also an allotment in the celestial regions. Plato then in the Timæus describes this Goddess as both a lover of war, and a lover of wisdom; for he says that she is philopolemic and philosophic.

Synonyms for philopolemic

Depending on context, synonyms include bellicose, belligerent, combative, hawkish, jingoistic, philopolemical.

Antonyms for philopolemic

Common opposites include dovish, nonbellicose, nonbelligerent, noncombative, pacific, peaceable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include agonistic, hawkish, jingoistic, antipatriotic, antipeace, philodoxical.

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