pacifist
IPA: pˈæsɪfɪst
noun
- One who loves, supports, or favours peace.
- One who prefers to avoid violence in daily life.
- One who is anti-war.
- One who both abstains from inflicting violence on others and opposes others doing so.
- (video games, roguelikes) A player who attempts the challenge of winning a game without attacking any enemy characters.
adjective
- Of or relating to pacifism.
Examples of "pacifist" in Sentences
- Why do you beleive that to be a pacifist is wrong??
- Elvis (#41): being a pacifist is not a sign of weakness.
- She identified as a pacifist, socialist and member of the IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World.
- One such person whom no one could credibly describe as a knee-jerk pacifist is retired Army Col. Pete Mansoor.
- An objection to coercion rooted in pacifist-anarchism evolved into the objections to coercion that inform modern libertariansim.
- If the term pacifist means "strongly opposed to war except in rare circumstances" then Channing was a pacifist, as is almost everybody.
- A pacifist is working in some job which gives him access to important military information, and is approached by a German secret agent.
- If you accept this, it leads to what I call pacifist-anarchism, a view I was committed to for a while in high school and my first year of college.
- And according to Lelyvard, Gandhi the pacifist was a wife-beater, denied sex to his wife for decades, was purported to be a "celibate" living life as an ascetic, but actually was a pedophile who ritualized sleeping naked with underage girls in order to test "the ferocity of his sexual desires," and at one point left his wife for a male lover.