单词 | conscriptionist |
释义 | conscriptionistn.adj. A. n. A person who advocates conscription. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > [noun] > compulsory > advocate of conscriptionist1875 1875 H. W. Baxley Spain II. xxxvi. 392 No Carlists are hereabouts; though the Conscriptionist is, and he may be equally repugnant as Carlists to the peaceably inclined peasant. 1901 Daily News 14 Mar. 7/1 Colonel Dooner is not a conscriptionist. 1975 D. J. Murphy T. J. Ryan viii. 198 He would not become a conscriptionist but neither would he adopt a pacifist stance. 2010 J. A. Wood Militia Myths v. 149 The efforts of Canadian conscriptionists raised the predictable cries of ‘militarism’. B. adj. That advocates or employs conscription. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > [adjective] > relating to compulsory enlistment conscriptive1804 conscriptional1809 conscriptionist1905 1905 Herald of Peace 1 July 143/2 This journal is now the chief organ of the conscriptionist propaganda. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 2/2 Not of the Conscriptionist school. 1928 Daily Tel. 23 Oct. 11/3 Technical difficulties in the way of limiting trained reserves in a conscriptionist country are very great indeed. 1950 C. P. Stacey in G. W. Brown Canada vi. 135 In the autumn of 1917 Sir Robert Borden formed a union Government of Conservatives and conscriptionist Liberals. 2002 Internat. Stud. Q. 46 571 The upper ranks of the army and general staff were solidly conscriptionist, believing that to prevail in modern warfare required mandatory service. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1875 |
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