Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A warlike disposition or character.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being warlike.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
warlike ;bellicosity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The first and second were its isolation and the warlikeness of its population.
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I wouldn't count on the non-warlikeness of Zen Buddhists.
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Loyalty to the group, sacrifice for it, hatred and contempt for outsiders, brotherhood within, warlikeness without -- all grow together, common products of the same situation.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Loyalty to the group, sacrifice for it, hatred and contempt for outsiders, brotherhood within, warlikeness without -- all grow together, common products of the same situation.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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The first and second were its isolation and the warlikeness of its population; but these would not have saved it in the end, had it not been for the fact that Japan, France, Great Britain, Germany and the United States discovered its desirableness simultaneously.
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The first and second were its isolation and the warlikeness of its population.
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The first and second were its isolation and the warlikeness of its population.
A Son Of The Sun Jack London 1896
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Loyalty to the group, sacrifice for it, hatred and contempt for outsiders, brotherhood within, warlikeness without, -- all grow together, common products of the same situation.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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If [America] becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.
Antiwar.com Original 2009
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If [America] becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.
Antiwar.com Original 2009
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