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- noun Plural form of
peacemonger .
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Examples
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The peacemongers are aware of what's been going on, but no one listents to them, and certainly not eh MSM.
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Right now, they have two choices: declare victory and start to withdraw, or withdraw and blame the defeat on the lily-livered Dems and peacemongers back home.
Happy Hour Roundup 2009
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My closest friend and I are turning 60 within a few months of each other and are each peacemongers and I thought it would be great for us to have matching buttons from "in the day."
Wolfgang's Vault in City Hall's Basement 1: Bill Graham sfmike 2009
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Fortunately at that time the peacemongers had their way and avoided awar.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Antiwar Libertarians and the Reification of the State: 2007
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Years of experience suggest to me that what peacemongers desire most aside from world peace, of course is an admirable self-image.
Daimnation!: They ain't pacifists, they're Amerika-haters 2006
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But if the assaults upon pacifist meetings continue we feel sure there will be some patched-up peacemongers.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 Various
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Mr. Lloyd George, in his review of the War, warned the peacemongers not to expect their efforts to succeed until the enemy knew he was beaten, but vouchsafed no information as to his alleged intention to go to the country in the political sense.
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There was no doubt about the strength of feeling in Britain; every man was for war, with the exception of a few cranks and peacemongers, many of them little better than traitors to their country.
The Rider in Khaki A Novel Nat Gould 1888
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Though quarrelsome peacemongers did their small worst,
My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886
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A group of Irish peacemongers, from both sides of their long-divided island, claims to have made rare progress last month towards getting Arab and Kurdish Iraqis to settle their differences, which have been threatening to drag the country back to the level of bloodshed that engulfed it three years ago.
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