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someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes

The pacifist spoke out against the war.

pacifist = someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes

Researchers can turn a pacifist mouse to a killer or a killer to a pacifist by adjusting their brain chemistry.
It is one thing for a pacifist to decide they will suffer the consequences of their inaction, but it is another to permit a general policy of submission to take the lives and liberties of others.
I'm a pacifist, a good-natured guy, I've never laid a hand on anybody since I was a kid.
Haruki Murakami -- After Dark

pacifist = someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes

I'm a pacifist, if you want to know the truth.
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

pacifist = someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes

Is he a man of great physical courage—so great that he will have no half-conscious misgivings about the real motives of his pacifism?
C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters

pacifism = opposition to violence as a means of settling disputes

The government had ended most graduate school deferments; the waiting lists for the National Guard and Reserves were impossibly long; my health was solid; I didn't qualify for CO status-no religious grounds, no history as a pacifist.
Tim O'Brien -- The Things They Carried

pacifist = someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes

Creeds like pacifism and anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind.
George Orwell -- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
The watchman said, "Stupid owners are pacifists or some damn thing.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
The prospect of using a weapon gave him mixed feelings, but he wasn't sure that he was meant to be a pacifist here in this reality.
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
Is this a company of pacifists?
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
The guards, some of whom had previously identified themselves as pacifists, fell quickly into the role of hard-bitten disciplinarians.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
Pacifism played in the back of his mind, and he read The Masses and Lyoff Tolstoi faithfully.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
Is this not a pacifistic religion, this thing you have been spreading?
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
So what if he was an avowed pacifist whose most aggressive attack strategy was known as the Slobber Offensive?
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
Sister received copious amounts of mail from pacifists around the world.
Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
It would have been difficult to voice his pacifist background, as he was the only Seventh-Day Adventist on the team.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
You must be the first pacifist this college has produced.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
I'm sure he's quite the pacifist.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
He was a pacifist, my father, and even though he would talk about these sunny times for Poland, I knew that au fond he was gloomy and worried.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

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