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pacificism|pæˈsɪfɪsɪz(ə)m|
[f. pacific a. + -ism.]
a. Rejection of war and violence as a matter of principle; = pacifism.
b. Advocacy of a peaceful policy; rejection of war in a particular instance.
As an ideological term pacifism (infuenced by Fr. pacifisme) is now the preferred form.
1910W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) xi. 283 Pacificism makes no converts from the military party. 1912Q. Rev. July 203 With the old Pacificism, the Pacificism of the Quakers, of Tolstoi, and of all those who hold that war must not be tolerated..the world has long been familiar. 1916G. G. Coulton (title) The main illusions of pacificism. 1920Q. Rev. Oct. 396 The revolution [in Japan, 1868]..was a reaction against these centuries of pacificism. 1936F. M. Ford Let. 20 Aug. (1965) 254, I am just on the verge of litigation with the Oxford University Press over modifications they have arbitrarily made in my pacificisms quasi-communism and other outrages that they have committed. 1957A. J. P. Taylor Trouble Makers ii. 51 By ‘pacificism’ I mean the advocacy of a peaceful policy; by ‘pacifism’ (a word invented only in the twentieth century) the doctrine of non-resistance. 1978J. Meyers Katherine Mansfield x. 131 Weekends [with Lady Ottoline Morrell]..were characterized by high spirits and high-mindedness, pacificism, poetry and all that was ultra-modern in the arts. |