单词 | militancy |
释义 | militancyn. 1. The condition or fact of being militant, esp. (in later use) in pursuing a political or social end. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > condition of conteckheadc1315 militancy1648 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] militancy1912 1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia i. x. §7. 122 All humane life, especially the active part, is constituted in a state of continual militancy [printed malitancy]. 1674 T. Staveley King's Supremacy in Romish Horseleech 280 The Church in this world is..in a state of peregrinancy, and militancy. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xiv. 39 This..put all the occasions into her hands which Love-militancy wanted. 1826 E. Irving Babylon II. vii. 180 Emblem of the Church's passage from militancy to glory upon the earth. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 88 The nation was in a normal condition of militancy against social injustice. 1912 in E. Pankhurst & R. C. Dorr My Own Story (1914) iii. iii. 258 The leaders..have so often warned the Government that unless the vote were granted to women in response to the mild militancy of the past, a fiercer spirit of revolt would be awakened. 1959 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties (ed. 2) i. ii. 102 Unalloyed sympathy can be transferred into true membership and even into militancy. 1975 D. Ramsay Descent into Dark ii. 56 Militancy was her bag, and..she looked like someone who spent a lot of time at the barricades. 1993 New Republic 22 Mar. 34/2 He was attracted, above all, to Kennedy's militancy about doing good. 2. Herbert Spencer's name for: the condition of being a militant community (see militant adj. 1b); social organization framed with a view to a state of war. rare. ΚΠ 1876 H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. (1877) I. 708 Where..the chiefly power is small, the militancy is not great. 1988 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 93 214 Spencer showed that, as expressions of subordination and deference, ceremonies are concomitants of militancy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1648 |
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