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Definition of Pacificism
1. Noun. The doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable.
Generic synonyms: Doctrine, Ism, Philosophical System, Philosophy, School Of Thought
Derivative terms: Pacifist, Pacifistic
2. Noun. The belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration.
Definition of Pacificism
1. Noun. General ethical opposition to war or violence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pacificism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pacificism
Literary usage of Pacificism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Germany and England by John Adam Cramb (1914)
"II WHAT, then, is pacificism? Dismissing from our minds for a moment German
criticism or German interpretation of England's purposes, let us consider the ..."
2. Studies in Statecraft: Being Chapters, Biographical and Bibliographical ...by Geoffrey Gilbert Butler by Geoffrey Gilbert Butler (1920)
"pacificism, " Weltmacht," internationalism, diplomacy based upon ideals—all were
ideas familiar to the men of these two centuries, as they are to us still, ..."
3. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"CHAPTER LXXVII AMERICAN pacificism — PREPAREDNESS — MUNITION SAFEGUARD Ford peace
mission, lightly regarded though it was, never- theless recorded itself on ..."
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