Militancy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Militancy \Mil"i*tan*cy\, n. [See {Militant}.]
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     1. The state of being militant; warfare.
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     2. A military spirit or system; militarism. --H. Spencer.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  militancy
       n : a militant aggressiveness [syn: {combativeness}, {militance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "militancy":
     action, activeness, activism, activity, aggression, aggressiveness,
     antagonism, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency,
     business, chauvinism, combativeness, contentiousness, doings,
     fight, goings-on, hostility, jingoism, martialism, militarism,
     motion, movement, political activism, proceedings, pugnaciousness,
     pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, saber rattling, stir, truculence,
     unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, warmongering, warpath