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warmonger|ˈwɔːˌmʌŋgə(r)|
[f. war n.1 + monger n.]
One who traffics in war. Contemptuously applied to: †a. a mercenary soldier (obs. rare—1); b. one who seeks to bring about war. So ˈwarˌmongering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. x. 29 As much disdeigning to be so misdempt, Or a war-monger to be basely nempt. 1817Hazlitt Effects War & Taxes Wks. 1902 III. 249 This is a singular slip of the pen in so noisy and triumphant a warmonger as the Poet Laureate. 1862J. Bright Let. in Trevelyan Life (1913) 316 The war-mongers here are baffled for the time. 1878E. Jenkins Haverholme 76 His bitter scoffs at the Chauvinists and war-mongers. 1934Sun (Baltimore) 5 Mar. 6/3 Dr. Toynbee differs from Mr. McFadden's war mongers in that he makes a suggestion for avoiding such a catastrophe. 1940N. Coward Australia Visited ii. 9 Many of those in high places..dismissed his [sc. Winston Churchill's] eloquent prophetic words as alarmist warmongering. 1940‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 170 The war-mongering to which the English intelligentsia gave themselves up in the period 1935–9. 1944Mrs. Belloc Lowndes Let. 4 June (1971) 249 Algernon Cecil..regards Churchill as ‘a warmonger’. 1955Times 2 Aug. 7/7 They have their war-mongers..of course, but their fervency on Palestine derives as much from a sense of injustice as from wounded pride. 1981R. Reagan in N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 June 25 It is not war⁓mongering to say that some things are worth dying for. |