Antedating of "Militarism"

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Nov 8 13:28:51 UTC 2006


militarism (OED3 1864)

1863 _Daily Evening Bulletin_ 7 Mar. 1/4 (19th Century U.S. Periodicals)
The people taught to despise liberty and to worship _militarism_
[translation of French pamphlet].

Fred Shapiro


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