pacifism
noun
opposition to war or violence of any kind.
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
Eventually he found his ardent pacificism giving way to a conviction that the Allied cause was just, and he ended up the war as an Army sergeant on Iwo Jima.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But the other animals also are very intelligent and wide awake; even the discarded god possesses a highly commendable pacificism.
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 John Buchan
