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Atkinson, who has delivered plenty of barbs to male chauvinists and unmilitant feminists in her time, has a new target: the welfare department.

From Time Magazine Archive

He distilled the teachers' reluctance into an oddly unmilitant strike slogan: "Remember the dignity of our profession."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mothers, unmilitant, lovely, moulding our manhood then, Walked in their woman's glory, swaying the might of men.

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss

The curious thing is that Christianity, which is essentially a contemplative, unmilitant, unpatriotic, unambitious force, decidedly oriental in type, should have become, by a mysterious transmutation, the religion of active, inventive, conquering nations.

From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher

It is exactly this unmilitant quality in the Suffragettes that makes their superficial problem.

From What's Wrong with the World by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)