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Pacifism

noun

The doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable. Synonyms: pacificism, passivism.

The belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration. Synonym: pacificism.

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"Pacifism" Quotes from Famous Books

... and found that Burne was deep in other things as well. Economics had interested him and he was turning socialist. Pacifism played in the back of his mind, and he read The ...

— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald

Words linked to "Pacifism" : belief, pacifistic, pacifist, philosophy, philosophical system, doctrine, ism, school of thought, passivism