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
The student protest against U.S. war vessels, for one thing, bespeaks a strong desire on the part of the young to carve out a new national identity, based partly on pacificism and partly on self-sufficiency.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
To him it is pacificism which is an immoral doctrine, because it is the doctrine of the materialist, who believes that enjoyment is the chief end of life.
From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles
