militant
adjective
aggressively active or combative in support of a cause.
unmilitant
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a word derived from
militant.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Arthur Christopher Benson
They were pugnacious pirates; they robbed their unmilitant gray relative and chased him from the premises.
From Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Thomas Fogarty
Mothers, unmilitant, lovely, moulding our manhood then, Walked in their woman's glory, swaying the might of men.
From Later Poems by Bliss Carman
