Antedating of "Militarism"

[Fred Shapiro]

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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