militaristn.adj.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 145 This is Mounsieur Parrolles the gallant militarist, that was his owne phrase. View more context for this quotation

1793 Beawes's Civil Hist. Spain & Portugal I. xxi. 569 That the Chiefs may proceed in this Affair with due Judgment, and that the Militarists of any Class whatsoever do not alledge that for a distinguished Service which is only a regular Discharge of Duty, both the one and the others shall always have the following present.

1848 T. P. Thompson in Bradford Observer 24 Feb. 8/3 It was a peace, not between diplomatists, but between the people on the two sides; and what the people have made, neither diplomatists nor militarists will break.

1884 J. R. Seeley in Encycl. Brit. XVII. 226/1 Napoleon..a ruthless militarist, cynic, and Machiavellian.

1914 G. B. Shaw in New Statesman 14 Nov. Suppl. A militarist is one who believes that..Providence is on the side of the big battalions.

1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) xxxix. 285 Throughout his struggles with provincial warlordism, ‘communist-bandits’, and finally with the Japanese, Chiang remained essentially an old-fashioned militarist.

1991 World Press Rev. 7/1 Ejecting the Iraqi army from Kuwait was only one of the United Nations' reasons for going to war... The other reason was to defang the Iraqi militarists.

1896 Speaker 21 Nov. 545/2 We are fast relapsing into a socialism of a militarist coercive type.

1914 P. Geddes Sex x. 239 This order of things—avowedly mechanical, militarist, and monetarist at best,..seems to many of us..the only possible form of industrial civilisation.

1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. iii. 33 Shall it be peaceful, cooperative, democratic, or shall it be militarist, totalitarian, brutal?

1957 A. E. Stevenson New Amer. II. i. 23 Much of the world has come to think of us as militarist, and even a menace to peace.

1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 14 Dec. 32/5 Despite a role-playing exercise, and an attempt to introduce some Indian counter-evidence, I was left feeling that William's story had been relished for unpleasantly imperialist and militarist reasons.