Pax Romanan.
/ˌpaks rəʊˈmɑːnə/, U.S. /ˌpæks roʊˈmɑnə/ 1. Originally (Ancient History): a state of relative peace maintained throughout large parts of the Roman Empire. Now also in extended use: a widespread (esp. international) state of peace maintained under any jurisdiction.The Pax Romana is generally regarded as operating from the beginning of Augustus' reign (27 b.c.) to the death of Marcus Aurelius ( a.d. 180). During this period, individual provinces were allowed a degree of autonomy in making and administering laws, etc., while remaining under the overall control of Rome. See also Roman peace n.
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society > armed hostility > peace > [noun] > involving specific nations
Roman peace1610
Pax Romana1853
peaceful coexistence1857
Pax Britannica1871
Pax Americana1894
Pax Sovietica1945
Pax Communistica1946
1853 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 291/1 Within its ample circumference [sc. the Roman world] the Pax Romana abode securely.
1884 W. J. Clarke tr. V. Duruy & J. P. Mahaffy Hist. Rome II. i. xxxiv. 201 Pax romana, that ‘Roman peace’ destined to draw the nations together and blend all languages,..whose boundless majesty, immensa romanæ pacis majestas, the nations will honour with sincere homage.
1934 G. B. Shaw On the Rocks (new ed.) Pref., in Too True to be Good 183 We Romans have purchased the pax Romana with our blood.
1956 A. Toynbee Historian's Approach to Relig. ii. xvi. 212 The final collapse of the Pax Romana in the third century.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia II. 371/2 This Pax Romana..ensured the survival and eventual transmission of the classical heritage.
1993 Harper's Jan. 63/1 The reason they are frayed is precisely because of the imperial overreach that comes with imagining that the United Nations will enforce some kind of pax romana.
2. An international organization of Roman Catholic students, founded in Switzerland in 1921.An affiliated organization of Catholic Professionals was founded in 1947 and shares the same name.
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society > faith > church government > laity > lay associations > student (Roman Catholic) > [noun]
Pax Romana1929
1929 Catholic World Nov. 214/1 Catholic students, undergraduates, lecturers, professors, in Spain, Holland, and Switzerland—neutrals in the war—brought this annual congress into being and set up an international committee. The movement..was named Pax Romana.
1943 Times 6 Mar. 5/7 In 1939 the World's Student Christian Federation, Pax Romana, and International Student Service drew up an agreement for creating..an organization for relief work among students.
1957 M. P. Fogarty Christian Democracy xvii. 263 Catholic graduates of all faculties are linked up through Pax Romana which also includes students.
1967 D. T. Kauffman Dict. Relig. Terms 349/1 Pax Romana, world organization of Catholic students. In Europe it is called the International Movement of Catholic Students.
1994 Jrnl. Canad. Stud. Fall 31 Traditionalists among student leaders thus worked within Pax Romana, a Catholic movement devoted in part to reinforcing international cooperation between Catholic university students of the world in order to check pernicious communist influences.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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