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Definition of Pacifists
1. pacifist [n] - See also: pacifist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pacifists
Literary usage of Pacifists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leading Opinions Both for and Against National Defense: A Symposium of by Hudson Maxim (1916)
"ANSWERS TO ARGUMENTS OF THE pacifists By HUDSON MAXIM I make no comments or
criticisms upon any of the statements or arguments in the letters of the ..."
2. America at War: A Handbook of Patriotic Education References by Albert Bushnell Hart, National Security League (1918)
"(b) [§265] Counter Activities of the pacifists. BY THE NATIONAL SECURITY LEAGUE
... pacifists. These persons are daily receiving encouragement from various ..."
3. The War for the World by Israel Zangwill (1916)
"The Pacific pacifists are bad enough for the temper. ... But the Pacific pacifists
are bearable compared with the Military pacifists. ..."
4. Understanding Germany, The Only Way to End War, and Other Essays by Max Eastman (1916)
"pacifists THE worst thing about war is that everybody thinks about it. ...
The people who implacably oppose war—call them pacifists if you must— are those ..."
5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"See pacifists; Peace pacifists Challenge to pacifists. IK Whiting. ... New Repub
10:283-4 Ap 358-60 Jl 28 '17 How pacifists mobilized against war. ..."
6. The United States in the World War by John Bach McMaster (1918)
"CHAPTER IX PREPAREDNESS AND pacifists WHILE the Department of State was busy with
the case of the Ancona, Congress assembled and listened to the annual' ..."
7. Selected Articles on National Defense by Julia Emily Johnsen (1920)
"... the total defect of vision which afflicts the "pacifists" may be called the
purblind spot. Those who are besotted with this extraordinary mental twist ..."
8. The End of the War by Walter Edward Weyl (1918)
"CHAPTER II pacifists AND PATRIOTS SUPERFICIALLY there could have been no more
startling volte face than that of America in April, 1917. ..."
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