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pacificist

adjective as in civilian

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Abe’s push to reinterpret Japan’s postwar pacificist constitution to allow Japanese forces to fight abroad to defend allies such as the United States has added fuel to the fire.

The intensely militant note struck by the cream pants is regarded as a body blow to the hope of the pacificists in the party and astonished even the most chauvinistic of President's admirers.

In some the squire and the vicar and the other chief people would not allow the meeting at all, rightly thinking it pacificist.

If the word "pacificist" today suggests to most men an ecstatic, irresponsible dreamer, it is they who are to blame.

In like manner, the pacificists in Philadelphia were called "pestiferous insects" a rather unpleasant sounding term and hardly descriptive.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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