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militancy|ˈmɪlɪtənsɪ|
[f. militant a.: see -ancy.]
a. The condition of being militant.
1648W. Mountague Devoute Ess. i. x. §7. 122 All humane life, especially the active part, is constituted in a state of continual militancy [printed malitancy]. 1826E. Irving Babylon II. vii. 180 Emblem of the Church's passage from militancy to glory upon the earth. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 88 The nation was in a normal condition of militancy against social injustice. 1912in E. Pankhurst My own Story (1914) iii. iii. 258 The leaders..have so often warned the Government that unless the vote were granted to women in response to the mild militancy of the past, a fiercer spirit of revolt would be awakened. 1913L. A. Harker Ffolliots of Redmarley xii. 156 Eloquent forgot her militancy. 1975D. Ramsay Descent into Dark ii. 56 Militancy was her bag, and..she looked like someone who spent a lot of time at the barricades.
b. In Herbert Spencer's use: The condition of being a ‘militant’ community; social organization framed with a view to a state of war.
1876H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. (1877) I. 708 Where..the chiefly power is small, the militancy is not great. |