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warism

noun

Etymology

From war + -ism.

  1. derived from *wers-✻ — “to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”
  2. derived from *werʀu✻ — “confusion; quarrel”
  3. derived from werra
  4. derived from guerre//werre
  5. inherited from werre//wyrre
  6. inherited from werre
  7. suffixed as warism — “war + ism”

Definitions

  1. Belief that war is justifiable in principle and can be justified in actual cases.

    • The book opens with an examination of warism, the uncritical presumption that war is morally justified, even morally required.
    • He argues that in our own contemporary Western culture, warism is a dominant outlook.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA