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militancy

[ mil-i-tuhn-see ]

noun

  1. aggressive activism or combativeness in supporting or agitating for a cause:

    Many labor experts credit the early militancy of the Industrial Workers of the World as leading to the eight-hour work day.

  2. the act of engaging or readiness to engage in war or armed aggression:

    In September 1914, Planck signed the "Manifesto of 93 German intellectuals to the civilized world" in support of the growing militancy of Germany.



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Other Words From

  • hy·per·mil·i·tant·cy noun
  • non·mil·i·tan·cy noun
  • su·per·mil·i·tan·cy noun
  • ul·tra·mil·i·tan·cy noun

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Word History and Origins

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Example Sentences

Her no-holds-barred approach won the support of more militant Back leaders including Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael.

CNN Türk last week reported authorities arrested four ISIS militants in Ankara, the Turkish capital.

Police claimed that Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant group was responsible, but the group has denied involvement.

From Fortune

June 2020 was when my source confirmed that Basit was a militant.

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He joined the militants on May 27 and was dead within a month.

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“Pakistan has to change the narrative about militancy,” said Kakar .

Their return to action harkened back to the days of organized militancy in the West Bank.

He said he had found it repulsive, because to him it had advocated Islamic militancy.

Slovyansk serves as the main base for the militancy across the region.

Then in 2007 he had joined the pro-Kremlin, pro “Eurasian” youth group, Nashi, to hone his militancy.

Nothing could have been more militant than her denunciation of militancy.

Militancy among the suffragists continued to flare up here and there in resistance to taxation without representation.

Maybe that would be a good plan, answered Miss Dolly, militancy now in her tone.

And his militancy was not merely of action but of the soul, not only of policy or necessity but of spiritual conviction.

But the continuance of militancy was largely due to the repeated mistakes of the Government.

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