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war-thirst
C2. Objective, etc., as war-breeder, war-chronicler, war-jobber, war-maker, war-winner, war-writer; †war-keeping, war-making, war preparation, †war-thirst, war-winning (also adj.); war-bearing, war-breathing, war-denouncing, war-loving, †war-parting, war-stirring adjs.; war-hungry adj.
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society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > action of waging war
warrayinga1300
warring13..
warfarec1485
war-makingc1485
warfaring1598
waginga1674
levying1769
belligerence1814
war-fighting1965
society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > continuing of war
war-keepingc1485
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 116 Defence of the kingis persone..js fer mare preuilegit, na is ony..were making till his awin legis.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 160 Capitaines..apte and meete..for warrekepyng.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres i. 5 This is my opinion of the diuersitie of warre-writers.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 354 But if (braue Lands-men) your war-thirst be such.
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vii. xv. 274 Mars is violent, a war-breeder.
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xxi. 41/1 The Cattieuchlani, a stout and warre-stirring people.
1747 W. Collins Odes 48 The War-denouncing Trumpet.
1791 W. Blake French Revol. in Compl. Writings (1972) 253 Then the King will disband This war-breathing army.
1833 Niles' Reg. 44 148/1 Very few persons questioned the right of congress to lay an embargo, under the war-making power.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxi. 271 The war-chroniclers who write brilliant stories of fight and triumph.
1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. 53 The war-jobbers have plainly won.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 2 Mar. 2/2 Raids by war-loving hill tribes on our Indian frontiers.
1931 W. S. Churchill World Crisis V. vi. 97 Neglect in the war-preparations.
1934 V. M. Yeates Winged Victory i. xx. 159 Tom was afraid Miller might be feeling his responsibility and want to do an undue amount of war-winning.
1936 D. Thomas Twenty-five Poems 10 Dumbly and divinely stumbling Over the warbearing line.
1947 J. G. Crowther & R. Whiddington Sci. at War i. 49 Manufacturers found it very difficult to give up mass production, in order to make the 200 or so sets ‘off’, which were often the war-winners.
1956 Nature 11 Feb. 251/1 This was largely due to the efforts of..Sir Henry Tizard, whose foresight resulted in such war-winning devices as radar.
1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) lx. 456 The Western caricature of the mad-dog war-hungry Chinese.
1974 P. Gore-Booth With Great Truth & Respect 123 Their object was to go hell-bent for victory with all the stupendous war-winning momentum which the United States developed.
1978 Ld. Drogheda Double Harness xix. 230 He was indeed one of the real war-winners, having done more than anyone to lighten Churchill's load.
1982 L. Warner & J. Sandilands Women beyond Wire v. 69 The Japanese..could be lethal..their business in the islands was that of professional war-making.
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