bellicism

[Jonathan Lighter]

I won't make that mistake again. "Bellicism" = "eagerness or readiness for war; militarism; anti-pacifism." Not in OED.

  Lots of exx. back to 1931 at least. Like "bellicist," has proliferated over the last twenty or thirty years.

  JL


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