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[syn: combativeness, militance, militancy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Militancy \Mil"i*tan*cy\, n. [See Militant.]
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1. The state of being militant; warfare.
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2. A military spirit or system; militarism. --H. Spencer.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
militancy
n 1: a militant aggressiveness [syn: combativeness,
militance, militancy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "militancy":
action, activeness, activism, activity, aggression, aggressiveness,
antagonism, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency,
business, chauvinism, combativeness, contentiousness, doings,
fight, goings-on, hostility, jingoism, martialism, militarism,
motion, movement, political activism, proceedings, pugnaciousness,
pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, saber rattling, stir, truculence,
unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, warmongering, warpath