Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of war-weariness.
The European Concert of Powers leagued together to cooperate while warweariness and the common fear of revolution remained to worry conservative states.
1987, Richard N. Rosecrance, The Rise of the Trading State: Commerce and Conquest in the Modern World, →ISBN, page 872 more examples
In the business world certain tolerances and understandings had grown up between enemy states despite the daily massacre on the front lines. Warweariness was the prevailing mood.
2013, John Dos Passos, Mr. Wilson's War, →ISBNIraq hangs heavy over the American psyche and contributes to the warweariness, but the 2003 invasion was not an intervention to stop an ongoing conflict.
2013 September 13, Sebastian Junger, “A Syria strike in the name of peace”, in Washington Post
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