What does war-weariness mean?
War-weariness means A state of exhaustion brought on by fighting in a war..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A state of exhaustion brought on by fighting in a war..
Bouts of war-weariness now began to grip me from time to time, rather after the fashion of bouts of malaria.
One common imputed cause of this changed attitude toward force in the nineteenth century and the anomalous peace of that century in general is war-weariness.
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War-weariness means A state of exhaustion brought on by fighting in a war..
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Bouts of war-weariness now began to grip me from time to time, rather after the fashion of bouts of malaria.
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