pacificistn.adj.

1907 Times 4 Mar. 9/2 Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman's article..on the limitation of armaments..cannot be said to have made a favourable impression except among the Socialists and the ‘Pacificists’.

1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast i. 21 It was bad enough for anyone to have to pose as a pacificist, but for me, as strong as a bull..and not looking my forty years, it was a black disgrace.

1966 New Statesman 3 June 815/2 We are all..‘Pacificists’—that is, we believe that war should be avoided wherever humanly possible.

1997 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 69 786 The Bolsheviks were never pacificists. They were quite simply not strong enough to fight an offensive.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 4 June 5/1 Declaring that it is not sufficient to simply call him ‘Pacificist’ to prevent him denouncing these follies anew, Baron d'Estournelles adds [etc.].

1910 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 183/2 The sooner we give up all this milk-blooded, blue-spectacled, pacificist talk the better.

1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast i. 35 You were bidden..to turn yourself from a successful general into a pacificist South African engineer.

1976 S. Hynes Auden Generation vii. 195 The book is pacificist propaganda.., but the position he takes is an oddly belligerent and un-pacifist one.