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militantmil‧i‧tant /ˈmɪlɪtənt/ ●○○ adjective militantOrigin: 1400-1500 Latin present participle of militare ‘to be a soldier, take part in war’, from miles; ➔ MILITARY1 - militant nationalists
- Yassin is the founder of the militant Islamic movement Hamas.
- Although the court found that she was not a militant member of the guerrilla group, she received a maximum sentence.
- And even if the defence took militant forms, its boundaries were defined by extant relations of production.
- It fell to later apostles to make public religion more militant.
- The Reform commission soon became the most militant of all the defense agencies.
- The United States saw the militant nationalist Lumumba as a commun ist sympathiser.
- This latest move is seen mainly as a sop to the increasingly militant, student-led protests demanding an immediate trial.
someone who has extreme opinions► extremist someone who has extreme opinions, especially about politics or religion: · The government condemns anyone who disagrees with it as extremists.· The regime has been accused of supporting extremists in other countries in the region.· Left-wing extremists have threatened to disrupt the political convention. ► fanatic someone who agrees with and supports very extreme religious or political aims, is completely certain that their opinions are right, and who is thought to be dangerous: · His parents were religious fanatics who didn't allow him to play with other children.· Pro-Fascist fanatics have continued their attacks on foreigners. ► hardliner someone who believes very deeply in a set of political aims and ideas, and will not accept or support any changes to them, even if this is unreasonable or unhelpful: · Cuban-American hardliners continue to reject any dealings with Castro.· The Prime Minister has been criticized by hardliners in his party for giving away too much in the treaty. ► militant someone who is willing to work outside usual political structures, and use illegal or violent methods if necessary, in order to achieve political change: · He is one of the militants convicted of the World Trade Center bombing.· A crowd of militants took to the streets to protest the government's policies. ► fundamentalist someone who follows the rules of their religion very strictly, in a way that seems very unusual to people who do not believe in the same way: Christian/Muslim/Jewish/Hindu etc fundamentalist: · an organized Christian fundamentalist movementfundamentalist group/leader/party/church etc: · They belong to a fundamentalist church. ► hardcore/hard-core the hardcore members of a political organization are the small group of people who have the strongest beliefs and who do the most work: · The organization has only about 30 hardcore supporters.· Dole at least had the support of loyal hard-core Republicans. ► zealot someone who has very extreme beliefs about something, especially about religion, and who thinks that everyone else should live their lives according to religious rules and beliefs: · A few zealots strongly objected to the proposed sale of alcohol at the local store.· Anti-abortion zealots are responsible for the bombing of the clinic. ► diehard someone who completely refuses to accept new ideas, especially political ideas, even after most other people have accepted them: · Salisbury, Walton, and a few other diehards still refused to join the coalition.· Taylor is one of the diehards willing to push the development program at any price. ► lunatic fringe a small number of people within a larger organization or movement, whose ideas are so extreme or unusual that most people think they are stupid or a little crazy: · Many think the lunatic fringe has really harmed the public image of gays among the middle class.· Animal rights campaigners blame the latest set of bomb attacks on the lunatic fringe within the movement. ADVERB► more· So the civil rights movement began to splinter, and young blacks in particular followed more militant leaders.· No egalitarians were more militant than the fathers of daughters.· Occasionally, such campaigns took more militant forms.· It fell to later apostles to make public religion more militant.· The squeeze on consumption prior to 1969 now led to trade unions adopting a more militant posture in wage negotiations. ► most· But many of the most militant of Morrissey attackers most definitely are.· The Reform commission soon became the most militant of all the defense agencies.· Although a number of concessions helped pacify minority nationalists, the most militant remained unreconciled.· They became the most militant of the advocates of cultural renewal.... NOUN► action· But so far the work force of 330 white collar staff have shown no sign of militant action. ► group· More militant groups welcome the publicity it brings.· In these days of siege, psychiatrists must treat disaffection through militant group action and advocating conscientious, high-quality patient care. nounmilitancymilitantthe militarymilitiamilitarismmilitaristadjectivemilitarymilitantmilitaristicmilitarizedadverbmilitantlymilitarily a militant organization or person is willing to use strong or violent action in order to achieve political or social change: militant political activists a militant animal rights group After the assassination of Martin Luther King, black leaders became more militant.—militant noun [countable]: right-wing militants—militancy noun [uncountable]: an increase in trade union militancy—militantly adverb: a militantly anti-communist group |