Warlike vs Bellicism - What's the difference?
warlike | bellicism |
Hostile and belligerent.
Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= 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 […].
As an adjective warlike
is hostile and belligerent.As a noun bellicism is
an inclination to war; warlike policy or behaviour.warlike
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Adjective
(en adjective)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}