pacificism
- a variation of pacifism.
Example Sentences
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That means contending with German society’s deeply ingrained pacificism, a legacy of ruinous wars and the horrors of the Holocaust.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
From 1911 to 1934, Anglicanism's most prestigious preaching office was occupied by "the Gloomy Dean," William Ralph Inge, who outraged England with his then radical opinions on birth control and pacificism.
From Time Magazine Archive
The harped-on secondary issues were Gandhi's pacificism, his suspected pro-Japanese attitude, the threat of Hindu-Moslem civil war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Global politics have little place today for his absolute pacificism or gentle tolerance.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was the incarnation of the commonplace, a comfortable middle-class sentimentalist, who patronized pacificism out of vanity, but was very careful not to dip his hands too far.
From Mr. Standfast by Buchan, John
