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militant
/ˈmɪlətənt/
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What does militant mean?
adjective
- Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.
- Aggressively supporting of an idea, group, political or social cause, etc.; adamant, combative.
noun
- An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction.
More meanings (2)
noun
- Someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant.
- (obsolete) A soldier, a combatant.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmɪlətənt/
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Marius, be it said in passing, a militant republican as he had proved, was now a Baron in spite of himself.
The militant organization of the Marxian Socialists suggests that their campaign must assume the tactics of militarism of the familiar type.
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Do not mistake this one word “above” to refer to the triumphant Church in heaven, but to the militant Church on earth.
Is this the still militant old man, standing at the corners of the three kingdoms, on all hands coercing alms of beggars?
There has never been any sympathy among American suffragists for the militant suffrage movement in England, and personally I am wholly opposed to it.