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Definition of Combatants
1. combatant [n] - See also: combatant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Combatants
Literary usage of Combatants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of International Law by Thomas Joseph Lawrence (1910)
"Here the non-combatants are a division of the armed forces, and consist apparently
of those ... They should, however, be reckoned as combatants, since they ..."
2. International Law by George Grafton Wilson, ( (1922)
"(c) By conduct persons are divided into combatants and noncombatants, according as
... combatants combatants in the full sense are the regularly authorized ..."
3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1906)
"As regards killing and wounding combatants in sea warfare and the means used for
that purpose, customary rules of International Law are in existence ..."
4. The Elements of International Law: With an Account of Its Origin, Sources by George Breckenridge Davis, Gordon Edward Sherman (1915)
"Treatment of Non-combatants in the Theatre of War. It farm buildings and the
villages cessity of the case, as the destruc- which it must devastate and de- ..."
5. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet by Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Joseph Dacier (1849)
"Fifteen days after this, Hector, with the consent of the count de Conversan, set
out with about three hundred combatants, and the banner, on his return to ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"It is difficult to conceive what-effect this well- intentioned document could
have had, for both tin- combatants claimed to be in harmony with the mind of ..."
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