warmonger
verb
- agitate for war
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈwɔː.mʌŋ.ɡə/ / /ˈwoɹˌmɑŋ.ɡɚ/ / /-ˌmʌŋ.ɡɚ/
noun
Etymology: From war + monger.
- Someone who advocates war; a militarist.
“Wham! Overnight he [Dwight D. Eisenhower] became a warmonger.”
“Do you hear revolution's call? / Time to fight our own denial / Warmongers keep us locked in fear / Invoke the past, a moment of tears / An ugly truth put forth by our youth / Under the threat of patriotic brute / So use your rage / It is a weapon we now must engage / Let trumpets sound our call / Or by their lies we will fall”
- A mercenary soldier.
“With that, out of his bouget forth he drew Great ſtore of treaſure, therewith him to tempt; But he on it lookt ſcornefully askew, As much diſdeigning to be ſo miſdempt, Or a war-monger to be baſely nempt;”
verb
Etymology: From war + monger.
- To advocate war.
“Harmsworth's Daily Mail had warmongered for over twenty years.”