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preparationist temporary.|prɛpəˈreɪʃənɪst| [f. preparation n. + -ist.] One who favours naval and military preparedness.
1915A. L. Lowell in World's Work (N.Y.) XXX. 719/1 The preparationists..fix their attention primarily on the means of securing the safety of our own land from injury by war. Ibid., To the preparationists..the suggestion of a league to enforce peace ought to appeal as a means of doing on an international scale the thing they are seeking to do for the United States. |