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pacifist, n. and a.|ˈpæsɪfɪst|
[ad. F. pacifiste: see -ist, pacificist.]
A. n. A proponent or advocate of pacifism; one who believes in resort to peaceful alternatives to war as means of settling disputes. Also in Comb., as pacifist-minded adj.
1906Times 30 July 5/4 The French ‘Pacifists’ will appeal to England's example in order to induce France also to cut down her naval programme. 1907Academy 2 Mar. 204/2 In 1890 he [sc. Carducci] wrote on ‘War’ an ode that passionately condemned the Pacifists. 1917Atlantic Monthly June 748/1 My friend is a pacifist because he dreads the tantalizing consequences upon himself of resisting aggression by violent physical methods. 1929Chesterton Thing 133 One does not need to be a pacifist to think that gunpowder need hardly go on being useful on quite such a grand scale. 1930W. S. Churchill My Early Life xxvi. 346, I have always been against the Pacifists during the quarrel, and against the Jingoes at its close. 1930Sun (Baltimore) 30 Dec. 7/3 Most people like to have their soldiers represented as brave... But not these German pacifists and defeatists. 1936A. Huxley Let. 2 Mar. (1969) 401 What the pacifist suggests is the eminently reasonable course of using intelligent generosity to begin with—rather than waiting to use it till the evil act has been committed. 1937P. S. Mumford Introd. Pacifism ii. 15 The Pacifist believes: 1. That war, i.e. mass murder, as a political policy is morally wrong, and consequently will never produce good results... 2. That security for nations, ideals or personal freedom can be obtained only by non-violent resistance, [etc.]. 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xix. 225 The murderous rage that fills the pacifist-minded when their indignation is roused. 1961E. S. Turner Phoney War xiii. 179 There was an arrogance among certain militant pacifists which..prevented them from respecting the views of those who thought freedom worth fighting for. 1969Listener 10 Apr. 505/3 Perhaps the oddest aspect of dispatches from Vietnam is that pacifist-minded conscripts are so readily made available to say they don't think words like honour and patriotism make any sense out there. 1970R. Sampson Anarchist Basis of Pacifism 1 My usage of the term ‘pacifist’ includes only those who live by the principle that they will not intentionally take human life, cost what it may. 1974A. Price Other Paths to Glory i. 18 ‘What did your father do in the last war?’..‘He worked on a farm... He was a conscientious objector—a pacifist.’
B. adj. Of or pertainig to pacifism; characterized by rejection of war and belief in peaceful alternatives. Also paciˈfistic a., suggestive of or inclined to pacifism; paciˈfistically adv.
1908Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Dec. 453/3 He made a speech remarkable for its string of pacifist commonplaces. 1909Westm. Gaz. 1 Sept. 9/1 Prussia was led to 1806–7 by pacifist and humanitarian ideas. 1918A. Huxley Let. 3 Mar. (1969) 146 The one blow at the eleventh hour was the Vice Provost's refusal to allow De La Warr's article on Labour and the War to be printed, as being too revolutionary and pacifist. 1920W. J. Locke House of Baltazar xxi. 256 It contained the names of representatives of all the disgruntled and pacifist factions in England. 1927H. D. Lasswell Propaganda Technique in World War iii. 62 H. G. Wells may be taken as an example of the pacifistically inclined Liberal..whose support of the War came at the cost of inner struggle. 1930Sun (Baltimore) 31 Dec. 6/2 What Mr. Bouton characterizes as a peculiarly German Socialist, defeatist and pacifist attitude of ‘a class apart’ is far from that. 1936A. Huxley What are you going to do about It? 4 It has seemed best to state the pacifist case in terms of a series of answers to common antipacifist objections. Ibid. 17 War..can only be prevented from breaking out if at least one government of an important sovereign state chooses to act pacifistically towards its neighbours. 1945Fellowship Aug. 152/1 A fearful responsibility rests upon us who believe in the pacifist way. 1956A. H. Compton Atomic Quest i. 37 The public attitude..had been strongly pacifistic. 1961E. S. Turner Phoney War xix. 278 Vendors of Fascist, Communist or pacifist literature were liable to be arrested. 1973D. Aaron Unwritten War iii. vii. 108 Both [sc. William and Henry James] felt the need..to display a pacifistic heroism. 1976Pacifist Jan. 5/2 It doesn't seem to me to be a pacifist way of overcoming things we dislike just to use our position of power (as parents or as government) to impose our will upon the people over whom we happen to have some influence. |