bellicist

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Definition of bellicist in English English dictionary

Adherent of bellicism, advocating war, who is war-centered or war-oriented

Adherent of bellicism, advocate of war, one who is war-centered or war-oriented

British historian Michael Howard introduced the term bellicist'' to refer to cultures “almost universal in the past, far from extinct in our own day, in which the setting of contentious issues by armed conflict is regarded as natural, inevitable and right.”.

One who advocates war. A warmonger

Synonyms

warmonger

Antonyms

anti-bellicist, pacifist

Etymology

() From Latin bellicus (“of or pertaining to war; warlike”) and the suffix -ist; possibly adapted from the French neologism belliciste (about Bismarck, 1871; in Émile Faguet, 1908).