Definition of militancy
: the quality or state of being militant
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Examples of militancy in a Sentence
the militancy of the radical organization made the authorities a little nervous
Recent Examples of militancy from the Web
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reportedly said the ongoing drugs clampdown will match the intensity of the country’s past efforts to quell Islamic militancy, an operation marred by reports of extrajudicial killings and arbitrary detention.
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The Pakistani military has waged a series of major operations there in the past 10 years to tackle rising militancy.
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In the late nineteenth century, the United States, far from being an exception in the industrial world, rivaled the dysfunctional Russian Empire in labor militancy.
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Indeed, evidence shows that religion increases militancy among Israeli Jews.
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The protests, a sign of growing militancy among young African Americans, were an unprecedented challenge to authority, and the principal and at least two other officials lost their jobs.
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Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim-majority country and has seen a recent resurgence in homegrown militancy.
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But, the situation started to decline during Saddam's era and became further complicated after 2003, mainly due to the rise of the country's religious institutions but also militancy and extremism.
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The Cured pushes the played-out zombie scenarios into reasonably fresh territory — the movie, for a time, serves as a interesting case study in the metrics of militancy and escalation.
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First Known Use of militancy
1648
militancy Synonyms
Synonyms
aggression, aggressiveness, assaultiveness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, defiance, disputatiousness, feistiness, fight, militance, militantness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, scrappiness, truculence;
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
antiaggression, anti-imperialism, antimilitarism;
affability, amiability, amicability, benevolence, cordiality, friendliness, geniality, graciousness, pleasantness, sociability;
Related Words
antagonism, fierceness, hostility, hyperaggressiveness, unfriendliness;
imperialism, jingoism, militarism;
acidity, biliousness, captiousness, crankiness, crossness, disagreeableness, fractiousness, fretfulness, grouchiness, grumpiness, huffiness, irascibility, irascibleness, irritability, irritableness, orneriness, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, querulousness, rudeness, surliness, testiness, waspishness;
Phrases
chip on one's shoulder;
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