warmongern.
/ˈwɔːˌmʌŋɡə/, U.S. /ˈwɔrˌmɑŋɡər/, /ˈwɔrˌməŋɡər/ One who traffics in war. Contemptuously applied to:† a. a mercenary soldier (obsolete rare).
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > mercenary
wagerc1420
knight wager1513
mercenary1523
lance-knight1530
suddart1542
hireling1547
adventurer1548
venturer1572
lansquenet1577
warmonger1590
mercenarian1598
passe-volant1617
provantman1659
soldier of fortune1661
privateer1676
routier1683
bravo1761
stipendiary1768
free companion1804
freelance1819
free-rider1821
freelancer1854
merchant of death1934
merc1967
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. x. sig. Mm5 As much disdeigning to be so misdempt, Or a war-monger to be basely nempt.
b. one who seeks to bring about war.
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society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [noun] > warmongering > warmonger
war-hawk1798
war-dog1813
war-man1814
warmonger1817
levier1831
sabre-rattler1928
hot warrior1950
1817 Hazlitt Effects War & Taxes in Wks. (1902) III. 249 This is a singular slip of the pen in so noisy and triumphant a warmonger as the Poet Laureate.
1862 J. Bright Let. 11 Jan. in D. S. Muzzey Readings Amer. Hist. (1915) 316 The war-mongers here are baffled for the time.
1878 E. Jenkins Haverholme 76 His bitter scoffs at the Chauvinists and war-mongers.
1934 Sun (Baltimore) 5 Mar. 6/3 Dr. Toynbee differs from Mr. McFadden's war mongers in that he makes a suggestion for avoiding such a catastrophe.
1944 M. B. Lowndes Let. 4 June (1971) 249 Algernon Cecil..regards Churchill as ‘a warmonger’.
1955 Times 2 Aug. 7/7 They have their war-mongers..of course, but their fervency on Palestine derives as much from a sense of injustice as from wounded pride.
Derivatives
ˈwarˌmongering n. and adj.
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society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [noun] > warmongering
sword-rattling1914
sabre-rattling1922
warmongering1940
rocket-rattling1960
1940 N. Coward Australia Visited ii. 9 Many of those in high places..dismissed his [sc. Winston Churchill's] eloquent prophetic words as alarmist warmongering.
1940 ‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 170 The war-mongering to which the English intelligentsia gave themselves up in the period 1935–9.
1981 R. Reagan in N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 June 25 It is not war~mongering to say that some things are worth dying for.
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