单词 | just war |
释义 | just warn. A war or military action considered morally or (originally) theologically justifiable. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other types of war just war1485 private war1548 preventive wara1626 angelomachy1635 Titanomachy1739 mountain warfarec1800 border-war1809 world war1848 theomachy1858 trench warfare1887 electronic warfare1946 asymmetric conflict1975 cyberwar1992 asymmetrical warfare1995 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. av/2 How aygoland sent to Charles that he shold feably come to hym with lytel peple to make Iuste warre. 1534 tr. Erasmus Bellum Erasmi f. 6v Those thinges, whiche are wonte to folowe the mooste happye and moste iuste warre of all. 1610 G. Charleton Jurisdiction 292 The publike good is peace, whereunto justices and just warres are ordinated. 1664 A. Cowley To Author in S. Tuke Adventures Five Hours (ed. 2) sig. A4 As when our Kings..Take in just Warrs a Rich plate-fleet of Spain. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 232 They were..ready..to contribute their full proportion towards maintaining the present just war. 1850 D. Webster Speech on Mr. Clay's Resol. 17 The defence of nations sometimes causes a just war against the injustice of other nations. 1884 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 164 This present war was a just war, in Ann's eyes. 1929 G. K. Chesterton Thing 111 Our friends and brethren fell ten years ago in a just war. 1960 Times 4 Feb. 10/7 In the past the conception of the just war, where it had been possible for a nation legitimately to fight in self-defence against an aggressor and in collaboration with others to thwart aggression, was a right one, but now that weapons had been invented which involved indiscriminate destruction it was very difficult to see how there could be a just war. 1991 Canberra Times 31 Jan. 9/2 Among the main criteria for a just war are that it should be undertaken only as a ‘last resort’, that it should have ‘legitimate authority’ and ‘right intentions’, and that the means should be ‘proportionate’ to the end. 2004 Aberdeen Evening Press (Nexis) 2 Nov. 18 A just war to rid the world of evil. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1485 |
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