| 单词 | preventive war |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspreventive war preventive war n. a war initiated by one state, faction, etc., in anticipation of (suspected) hostile intentions on the part of another. 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 a1626 F. Bacon Cert. Misc. Wks. (1629) 21 A iust Feare will be a iust Cause of a Preuentiue War. 1702 Reasons for War with France & Spain 19 A War which is Necessary, is Just; and if a Preventive War be Necessary..it is also Just. 1887 Times 7 Feb. 5/3 At the end of the 19th century a preventive war cannot be justified on the ground that the other nation might later on think itself able to fight and do so. 1948 H. Nicolson Diary 29 Nov. (1968) 155 A preventive war is always evil. 1995 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 30 May 6 Any tension or Syrian concentration of forces would require an immediate decision on whether to launch a preventive war. < as lemmas |
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