militarism

[ US /ˈmɪɫətɝˌɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /mˈɪlɪtəɹˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests
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How To Use militarism In A Sentence

  • Their vices and their virtues and their music, and their greed and their fairyism and their militarism, all seem to have been roasted in a hurry, and to contain, like red meat, the natural juices to an extent that seems to us excessive. This Is the End
  • It is time that students in institutions of higher learning in Zambia began differentiating between misplaced student militarism and academic development.
  • But since it is rare in any book aimed at children to see a discussion of economics, let alone imperialism and militarism, that criticism might be held in abeyance.
  • It had nothing to do with militarism or with the violent sports that had brought aristocrats and plebeians together around the prize-fight or cock-fight.
  • This applies to the association or correlation he sought to establish between the theolog - ical stage and militarism, between metaphysical modes of thought and “defensive” warfare and between the growth of positive science and the phase of industrial - ism and the cessation of war. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • Wars in which antimilitarism plays an important role are often described as “asymmetric.” There has never been a successful right-wing insurgency « Isegoria
  • They are full of the glitter and bluster of German militarism ?mailed fist and shining armour.
  • Mongeau prefers the term antimilitarism, rather than pacifism, for the alleged national character trait.
  • Hawk & Dove would be interesting, seeing two brothers debate militarism and pacifism from a Japanese perspective. More manga remakes
  • It also reconfirmed its anti-militarism manifest in its tiny regular army and long-standing neutrality.
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