bellicist

[Mark Mandel]

Bin there, dun that, cussed & raved about it. Save early & often.

m a m

On Dec 9, 2007 12:55 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "One who favors or calls for war; anti-pacifist; militarist; warmonger.
> Often attrib."
>
>  Not in OED. I just spent a full hour documenting this word in an email.
> Then the goddamned computer erased it all and I can't get it back. How?
> Inadvertently pressed a funny button, how else?
>
>  Anyway, first known appearance: 1912 in a book by Norman Angell about the
> Balkans. Angell used in again in 1913 in the fourth ed. of his well-known
> _The Great Illusion_.
>
>  Frequent appearances since then. Check it out.
>
>  JL
>
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