militancy

[ mil-i-tuhn-see ]

/ ˈmɪl ɪ tən si /

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noun

aggressive activism or combativeness in supporting or agitating for a cause: Many labor experts credit the early militancy of the Industrial Workers of the World as leading to the eight-hour work day.

the act of engaging or readiness to engage in war or armed aggression: In September 1914, Planck signed the "Manifesto of 93 German intellectuals to the civilized world" in support of the growing militancy of Germany.

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Sometimes mil·i·tant·ness

[mil-i-tuhnt-nis] /ˈmɪl ɪ tənt nɪs/ .

Origin of militancy

milit(ant) + -ancy

OTHER WORDS FROM militancy

hy·per·mil·i·tant·cy, nounnon·mil·i·tan·cy, nounsu·per·mil·i·tan·cy, nounul·tra·mil·i·tan·cy, noun

Words nearby militancy

miliary tuberculosis, Milicent, milieu, milieu therapy, milit., militancy, militant, Militant Tendency, militaria, militarism, militarist

How to use militancy in a sentence

Her no-holds-barred approach won the support of more militant Back leaders including Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael.
Gloria Richardson pushed aside a bayonet as a ’60s civil rights activist. Now 98, she wants the new generation to fight on.|Keith L. Alexander|December 11, 2020|Washington Post
CNN Türk last week reported authorities arrested four ISIS militants in Ankara, the Turkish capital.
ISIS threatens to attack Turkish LGBTQ organization|Michael K. Lavers|December 7, 2020|Washington Blade
Police claimed that Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant group was responsible, but the group has denied involvement.
These 10 journalists have been killed and deserve justice immediately|Brett Haensel|November 2, 2020|Fortune
June 2020 was when my source confirmed that Basit was a militant.
Four Sons, One War: All Dead|Eugene Robinson|September 25, 2020|Ozy

He joined the militants on May 27 and was dead within a month.
Four Sons, One War: All Dead|Eugene Robinson|September 25, 2020|Ozy
“Pakistan has to change the narrative about militancy,” said Kakar .
Pakistani School Killers Want to Strike the U.S.|Sami Yousafzai, Christopher Dickey|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Their return to action harkened back to the days of organized militancy in the West Bank.
The Radicals Who Slaughtered a Synagogue|Creede Newton|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He said he had found it repulsive, because to him it had advocated Islamic militancy.
Religion, Race, and a Broadway Hit: The Making of ‘Disgraced’|Tim Teeman|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Slovyansk serves as the main base for the militancy across the region.
Kiev Is Blowing Its Chance to Take Back East Ukraine|Jamie Dettmer|May 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then in 2007 he had joined the pro-Kremlin, pro “Eurasian” youth group, Nashi, to hone his militancy.
Putin’s Men in Ukraine: We’re Not Giving In|Anna Nemtsova|April 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Nothing could have been more militant than her denunciation of militancy.
Ramsey Milholland|Booth Tarkington
Militancy among the suffragists continued to flare up here and there in resistance to taxation without representation.
Susan B. Anthony|Alma Lutz
Maybe that would be a good plan, answered Miss Dolly, militancy now in her tone.
Nothing But the Truth|Frederic S. Isham
And his militancy was not merely of action but of the soul, not only of policy or necessity but of spiritual conviction.
Greenwich Village|Anna Alice Chapin
But the continuance of militancy was largely due to the repeated mistakes of the Government.
The Annual Register 1914|Anonymous