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

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 Nitti, Francesco Saverio

Though it would have seemed perverse to the ordinary pacificist, this sentiment sprang from a respectable source.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter

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