pacifistic

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His father was the choir director of the First Congregational Church in Norwich, elevating the prominence of the pacifistic family.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2018

Yet Orwell belonged for a time to the pacifistic Independent Labour Party, deplored the sadism of communists in Spain and felt uneasy with gratuitous violence in media.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2017

To make a picture with pacifistic elements was absolutely impossible.

From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2017

“You’ve got people trying to walk up to them in the pastures because these people are so peaceful and pacifistic, they think the buffalo aren’t going to charge them,” said Mrs. Fischer.

From Washington Times • Nov. 14, 2016

"Gentle Jane was as good as gold," To borrow a line from Mr. Gilbert; She hated War with a hate untold, She was a pacifistic filbert.

From Something Else Again by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)