peace-breakern.
/ˈpiːsˌbreɪkə/, U.S. /ˈpisˌbreɪkər/ A person who violates peace or stirs up strife; a disputatious or quarrelsome person; a person who commits a breach of the peace, a violator of public order.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > one who creates a disturbance or rioter
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society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [noun] > warmongering > warmonger > one who breaks peace or truce
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?1533 W. Tyndale Expos. Mathew v. f. xxiv Cursed be the peace breakers, picquarels, whisperers, backbyters.
1552 H. Latimer Serm. Matt. (1562) v. 75 b These whisperers bee peacebreakers, and not peacemakers.
1578 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 38 The saidis thevis and peace brekaris.
a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 173 Are the peace~makers blessed? Then, certainly, the peace-breakers are cursed.
a1716 O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. x. 90 So far from being a Peace-maker..he is a Peace-breaker.
1845 Biblical Repertory Apr. 239 They would..shun the brand of peace-breakers and schismatics.
1883 Manch. Guardian 15 Oct. 5/3 The police had a lively time of it in bundling out the peacebreakers.
1935 A. Henderson Labour's Way to Peace ix. 96 To support our Government in all the risks and consequences of fulfilling its duty to take part in collective action against a peace-breaker.
1997 Orlando (Florida) Sentinel (Nexis) 15 July c1 ‘Police officers are supposed to be peacekeepers not peace-breakers,’ the chief said.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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