Crossword clues for militarist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Militarist \Mil"i*ta*rist\, n.
A military man. [Obs.]
--Shak.A person having a strong spirit of militarism, in senses 3 or 4.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "a soldier," from military + -ist. As "one devoted to militarism" from 1884.
Wiktionary
n. One who believes in the use of military force.
WordNet
n. a person who advocates war or warlike policies [syn: warmonger]
Usage examples of "militarist".
Woodrow Wilson, in the exchange of notes which led to the armistice, had pressed for the abolition of the Hohenzollern militarist autocracy, and the Germans had seemingly obliged him, although reluctantly.
Reichstag, whose members were elected by universal manhood suffrage, the German Empire was in reality a militarist autocracy ruled by the King of Prussia, who was also Emperor.
This open and declared intention of establishing a world order out of the present patchwork of particularist governments, of effacing the militarist conceptions that have hitherto given governments their typical form, and of removing credit and the broad fundamental processes of economic life out of reach of private profit-seeking and individual monopolization, which is the substance of this Open Conspiracy to which the modern religious mind must necessarily address its practical activities, cannot fail to arouse enormous opposition.
Of course, now the Americans have renamed it Jacksonville, shaming the place with the name of that militarist who sits athrone in Washington.
This was an inhumanly functional civilization, not militarist in the sense of strutting, bemedaled generals and parades, but with a skilled appreciation of the business of conquest, honed by generations of experience and coldly unsentimental analysis.
Just as ordinary people had been manipulated by militarists and ultranationalists during the war, the argument went, now they were following a new set of leaders.
Under the militarists and ultranationalists, free expression had been severely suppressed.
My own take on the matter was that my heavy hint to Grigory the previous day had led him to believe that Jadey was being held as a bargaining-chip by the Reform faction, and that releasing her would help his cause -- that of the straight-down-the-middle centrist faction, conservative but not outright reactionary like the militarist hard-liners.
And about the Russian intelligence community here, and their contacts with unpurged Japanese militarists.