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warlover

noun

Etymology

From war + lover.

  1. inherited from lovere
  2. compounded as warlover — “war + lover”

Definitions

  1. A lover or advocate of war

    A lover or advocate of war; a warmonger.

    • He has always been a barbarian and warlover, the enemy of humanitarianism, liberalism and Christian civilisation, and the Hitler régime is no accidental phenomenon but a logical fruit of German history.
    • In the face of this and other documentation a shopful of A. J. P. Taylors will find it difficult to mend Hitler's reputation as a warlover.
    • Sherman, after all said, "War is hell," and loved being able to provie it; even the most blood-eyed warlover will concede war's ugliness, so long as you don't stop his participation.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA