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defeatist|dɪˈfiːtɪst|
[ad. F. défaitiste: cf. prec.]
One who advocates defeatism or accepts defeat. Also attrib. or as adj.
1918Observer 9 June 8/6 The political creed of the party,..is to support the Government in winning the war and in defeating the intrigues of Pacifists and Defeatists. 1918Times 19 June 6/4 The Independent Nationalist Press..has applied the label ‘defeatist’ to those Nationalists who voted for a moderate policy at the Irish Convention. 192019th Cent. Mar. 556 The shop-stewards, too, in the great factories in Berlin and other towns were disloyal and ‘defeatist’. 1921N. Angell Fruits of Victory vii. 207 The repression of pacifist and defeatist propaganda during the War. 192119th Cent. Jan. 151 Throughout the Great War, as in the Japanese War, he was a defeatist. 1927C. E. Montague Right off Map xxii, Lovel sat down to his separate table and map, but could not take his eyes from the abhorred defeatist. 1929Daily Tel. 8 Jan. 10/3 The defeatist tactics of those who belittle his leadership. |