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militant
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The English word militant is both an adjective and a noun , and is usually used to mean vigorously active , combative and aggressive , especially in support of a cause, as in 'militant reformers'. It comes from the 15th century Latin " militare " meaning ...
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a. 1 fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike. (from 15th c.) 2 aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative. (from 17th c.) n. 1 (context obsolete English) A soldier, a combatant. (17th-19th c.) 2 An entrenched ...
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adj. engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations"; "a fighting war" [syn: belligerent , fighting , war-ridden , warring ] showing a fighting disposition without self-seeking; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ So the civil rights movement began to splinter, and young blacks in particular followed more militant leaders. ▪ No egalitarians were more militant than the fathers of daughters. ▪ Occasionally, such campaigns ...
Usage examples of militant.
We are the militant arm of the Church of the Apocryphal We are the ones who have been tested.
For some reason the sheriff failed to mention that his deputies had already jailed one of the most prominent Chicano militants in the nation.
The Escapee, however, faced with this insurrection of militant pessimism, turned pale and wan and murmured to himself comforting phrases of Kropotkin, etc.
The action planned by the militant expat No-Borders to open the borders.
And a group of militant anti-GM campaigners are being pursued by Interpol, after their announcement that they have spliced a metabolic pathway for cyanogenic glycosides into maize seed corn destined for human-edible crops.
Preceptors of the militant orders are indeed members of the Hierocracy, and the names of the current holders of those offices have been duly entered in the rolls of this body.
The scribes will then draw up suitable documents which each member of the Hierocracy will sign, transferring command of his personal detachment of church soldiers over to the militant orders for the defence of the city.
It was a great solid granite block with little pinchpenny ecclesiastical windows in which goods darkly lay A board above a barred door said Peace Militant.
In Turbat, where his family was from, he courted and married a pretty Baluchistani girl who was the sister of Abu Hashim, a Pakistani militant.
Mama Therese marched ahead with forbidding frown and quivering chins, with the militant carriage of misprized and affronted rectitude.
France, where he came next in 1882, the traditions of the Commune had nourished a militant Anarchist movement of which there was a flourishing group in Lyons.
They were supported by local Jacobin militants who had either been harassed during the federalist ascendancy or who simply enjoyed showing off their anticlerical zeal.
With Lafayette occupied at the front and the complaisant Petion rather than the fretful Bailly as mayor, the militant press and the popular clubs quickly revived their following in the spring of 1792.
The disintegration, during the second half of the twentieth century, of the organizing principles of international affairs - most crucially Empire in the 1960s and Communism in the 1980s - led to the re-eruption of exclusionary, intolerant, and militant nationalism.
Little gilt chairs stood in rows, seeming too frail to bear anyone, and the new Macrobian Knights Militant stood guard like graven mages, gleaming with iron and bronze.