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

The sooner we give up all this milk-blooded, blue-spectacled, pacificist talk the better.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John

If the word "pacificist" today suggests to most men an ecstatic, irresponsible dreamer, it is they who are to blame.

From Anti-Suffrage Essays by Various

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 Macaulay, Rose, Dame