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armed neutrality
noun
- military preparedness without commitment, especially as the expressed policy of a neutral nation in wartime; readiness to counter with force an invasion of rights by any belligerent power.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of armed neutrality1
First recorded in 1770–80
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Example Sentences
There might be in the school boys base enough to charge that he lacked spirit in his attitude of armed neutrality.
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The states-general voted to join the armed neutrality and, while disavowing the treaty, did not proceed against the pensionary.
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So, by-the-by, will a perch, the only fish that can live with pike on terms of armed neutrality or amicable defiance.
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For three weeks there had been a kind of armed neutrality between Jacqueline Ralston and her new cousin.
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This plan is a sort of armed neutrality which has many advocates.
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