peacemongern.
/ˈpiːsˌmʌŋɡə/, U.S. /ˈpisˌmɑŋɡər/, /ˈpisˌməŋɡər/ Chiefly derogatory.
A peacemaker; a person who favours or advocates the achieving of peace by means considered to be unrealistic, or who does so with excessive enthusiasm.
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society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > [noun] > peacemaker
peacemaker?a1425
make-peacea1513
pacifier1533
compounder1539
pacificator1539
truce-maker1552
ground-layer1603
stickler1615
peace-wright1718
peacemonger1808
honest broker1878
1808 R. Southey Let. 13 Sept. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) III. 169 The peacemongers were ready to have sacrificed the honour of England.
1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 115 Do you really mean to stand up as a universal peacemonger?
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 May 4/1 Neither the scaremongers nor the peacemongers will feel any security whatever that the Cabinet is taking the country into its confidence.
1949 N.Y. Times 26 June iv. 1/2 Peacemongers, apparently in the hope that East-West tension would be lessened and the West's position softened.
1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 5 Jan. 26/1 You have to admire the unwavering, sometimes blind dedication of our more radical peacemongers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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