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militarism

Word definitions for militarism in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. an ideology which claims that the military is the foundation of a society's security, and thereby its most important aspect

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1864, from French militarisme , from militaire "military" (see military ).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggresively to defend or promote national interests

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Militarism \Mil"i*ta*rism\, n. [Cf. F. militarisme.] A military state or condition; a military system; reliance on military force in administering government. The spirit and traditions of military life. --H. Spencer. The view that military strength, efficiency ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Economic success has replaced nationalism and militarism as the dominant force in a region once terrorized by war and revolution. ▪ It had been argued on the Left that wars were caused by the search for profits, by imperialism, ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Militarism is the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests; examples of militarist states include North Korea, Nazi ...

Usage examples of militarism.

When all was said and done, it was obvious that only a small number of high army and navy officers, few high bureaucrats, no captains of the war economy, and vir-tually none of the civilian ideologues in politics, academe, and the media who helped prime the pump of racial arrogance and fanatical militarism paid for the terrible crimes that men on the front committed.

These educational and propagandist groups drawing together into an organized resistance to militarism and to the excessive control of individuals by the makeshift governments of to-day, constitute at most only the earliest and more elementary grade of the Open Conspiracy, and we will presently go on to consider the more specialized and constructive forms its effort must evoke.

There is no reason in our quest for amplified states of Being that we cannot acculturate the enhancement, technique and knowledge of love to a more sophisticated degree than the culture of militarism has carried the strategies of conflict.

As the wave of nationalism and militarism swept over Europe with the Bismarckian wars, men began to judge the Reformation as everything else by its relation, real or fancied, to racial superiority or power.

What GHQ had censored, after all, was a purely Japanese criticism of militarism and the abuse of authority in presurren-der Japan, precisely the type of free and critical discussion the occupation claimed it hoped to promote.

He had agreed, against his deepest instincts as a soldier, to accept this diplomatic post in the hope he might be able to help turn Earth and Minbar away from a dangerous militarism and xenophobia he had perceived growing on both worlds, attitudes that could threaten the cooperation between them that until now had kept the peace among many different worlds.

Japanese militarism and ultranationalism were construed as reflecting the essence of a feudalistic, Oriental culture that was cancerous in and of itself.

Well, it was the militarism of Japan in the early Thirties that turned us into a garrison state.

It is also true that it was the heartstone of Prussian militarism and the German General Staff that brought the world to such misery.

Take power from the landed gentry especially, whose militarism may have been the root cause of the rebellion, and establish a parliament based on strict manhood suffrage?

It was crudely natural, and perhaps necessary for recruiting purposes, that German militarism and German dynastic ambition should be painted by journalists and recruiters in black and red as European dangers (as in fact they are), leaving it to be inferred that our own militarism and our own political constitution are millennially democratic (which they certainly are not).