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pacifist
[ pas-uh-fist ]
noun
- a person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- a person whose personal belief in pacifism causes them to refuse being drafted into military service. Compare conscientious objector.
adjective
ˈpacifist
/ ˈpæsɪfɪst /
noun
- a person who supports pacifism
- a person who refuses military service
adjective
- advocating, relating to, or characterized by pacifism
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Other Words From
- anti·paci·fist noun adjective
- non·paci·fist noun
- pro·paci·fist noun adjective
- semi·paci·fist adjective noun
- un·paci·fist adjective
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Example Sentences
And the ones protesting the loudest may be the war-mongering men forced into pacifist celibacy.
He had a weakness for fine clothes and good-looking women, and he certainly was no pacifist.
I am a proud Israeli and a religiously observant Jew and a functional pacifist.
A veteran hawk, Prime Minister Abe wants to strengthen Japan, even review its pacifist constitution.
In their decision they wrote that there was some chance I was a pacifist after all.
He's a great lecturer, but he's a pacifist—the only one on the faculty—and a friend of Dora's.
What would my pacifist friend do if he saw a maniac attacking his children with a hatchet?
I remember discussing the matter with a pacifist friend of mine, an out-and-out religious non-resistant.
We have seen both pacifist and militarist crowds setting forth their manifestoes in terms of New Testament teaching.
Liberal, radical and pacifist opponents of the war rallied around it as the last great hope of civilization.
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