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UK
/pˈæsɪfˌɪst/
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[ US /ˈpæsɪfɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈpæsɪfɪst/ ]
NOUN
- someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
ADJECTIVE
- opposed to war
How To Use pacifist In A Sentence
- Just because the American people are disgusted with higher taxes, bigger government, left wing liberal give away policies and pacifist foreign policy attitudes, this idiot thinks the Tea Party activist is in someway trying to bring the country down. Clinton warns against violent anti-government attitude
- The BBC correspondent says anti - piracy mission is controversial in Japan because of its pacifist post - War constitution.
- He became a Bren gunner and was taught to kill - a far cry from his Christian pacifist background.
- Lord of the Rings, the tale of a pacifist-turned-assassin lugging a rifle to a dictator's heartland in order to get off that one critical shot. Zornhau: Merlin's Snake Oil – or why arcanists are not artillery
- Anxious to avoid confrontation with pacifists, the authorities made life relatively easy for the objectors.
- During this same period of Flotilla Face-Offs with the IDF, Pakistan, my nation of matrilineal and patrimonial heritage has witnessed the extraordinary massacre of 120 moderate, pacifist Muslims, followers of the Ahmadiyyah movement that subscribes to peaceful, pluralistic Islam. Qanta Ahmed, MD: Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View
- He was a U.S. version of Gandhi, advancing the theory of pacifist resistance through his words and deeds.
- It appears very fashionable these days to take a sort of pacifist line.
- The big difference between pacifists and the kind of activists that Jensen and Churchill are trying to spawn is that the pacifist says that he/she will do "whatever it takes" up to a point. Do "movements to bring about social and environmental justice always fail?"
- The pacifist option was followed by only a small minority.