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noun
1.
a person who surrenders easily or is subject to defeatism.
2.
an advocate or follower of defeatism as a public policy.
adjective
3.
marked by defeatism.
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Defeatist
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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defeatist
1918, adj. and n., in reference to pacifists and political opposition in Britain, from Fr. défaitiste, which was used there in reference to the Russians (see defeat)
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