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nounwarism (uncountable)
- uncountableBelief that war is justifiable in principle and can be justified in actual cases.
He argues that in our own contemporary Western culture, warism is a dominant outlook.
2016, Michaeleen Kelly, "Just War Theory as Ideological and Combatant Role Confusion," International Journal of Peace Studies 21(2)1 more example
The book opens with an examination of warism, the uncritical presumption that war is morally justified, even morally required.
1991, Patrick G. Coy, Review of From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum, by D. L. Cady. International Social Science Review, 66(4),, page 185Synonyms: bellicism
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nounBelief that war is justifiable in principle and can be justified in actual cases.
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