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pacificist



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In 2002, following time in Congress, Ms. Betancourt launched a campaign for presidency as a member of the Partido Verde Oxígeno, a young political movement with a pacificist, environmental, anti-corruption philosophy.

From New York Times Jan. 18, 2022

It was the first time since 1924 that James Ramsay MacDonald, pacificist, socialist, internationalist, has represented the British Empire at a conference of the great powers.

From Time Magazine Archive

It belonged to a man called Moxon Ivery, who was a kind of academic pacificist and a great god in the place.

From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

In some the squire and the vicar and the other chief people would not allow the meeting at all, rightly thinking it pacificist.

From Non-combatants and Others by Dame Rose Macaulay

A war which has for its object the conquest of political or religious liberty cannot be condemned even by the most confirmed pacificist.

From Peaceless Europe by Francesco Saverio Nitti




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