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Definition of Peacenik
1. Noun. Someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations.
Definition of Peacenik
1. Noun. (sometimes derogatory) Someone who publicly opposes armed conflict in general, or a particular conflict; or who publicly opposes the proliferation of weapons. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peacenik
1. one who demonstrates against a war [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peacenik
Literary usage of Peacenik
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"... marked its completion by shaving his head and casting the hair into the fire
on the Altar on which the peacenik-rings were being sacrificed (Num. vi. ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope: Including the Different by John Quekett (1855)
"Granite, Copper, Pyrites, Bath, Limestone, peacenik, Caen, foliated, native,
Doulting, magnesian, • Kuby, Portland. Moss Agate. Iron, Elba, Sand. Minerals. ..."
3. The History of Great Britain: From the First Invasion of it by the Romans by Robert Henry, Malcolm Laing (1800)
"... Edgar the peacenik; an appellation which he acquired, by being always fo \vell
prepared for war, that neither his own fub- ..."
4. Israel's Unilaterialism: Beyond Gaza by Robert Zelnick (2006)
"Here was the left- wing director of the Histadrut union, an avowed "peacenik"
who conceives of the occupation as immoral. Above all, he was avowedly ..."
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