Bellicose vs Bellicism - What's the difference?
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Warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
Showing or having the impulse to be combative.
An inclination to war; warlike policy or behaviour.
*1962 , , The Causes of Wars , p. 271:
*:One cannot understand the causes of the First World War unless one appreciates the degree of bellicism in European society at that time, especially in Central Europe […].
*2003 , Timothy Patrick Jackson, The Priority of Love , p. 126:
*:Today the phrase "holy war" suggests a no holds barred fanaticism, a form of unbridled bellicism .
*2012 , (Christopher Clark), The Sleepwalkers , Penguin 2013, p. 295:
*:Not all of France was inundated by the nationalist wave – it was predominantly young, intelligent Parisians who embraced the new bellicism […].
Bellicose is a related term of bellicism.
As an adjective bellicose
is warlike in nature; aggressive; hostile.As a noun bellicism is
an inclination to war; warlike policy or behaviour.bellicose
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The core Ice Age cast—wooly mammoth Manny (Ray Romano), sabertooth tiger Diego (Denis Leary), and sloth Sid (John Leguizamo)—are set adrift, sailing the high seas on a chunk of ice until they collide with a bellicose primate (Peter Dinklage).