Both Uses of
pacifist
in
The Magic Mountain
- You have spoken to our pupils here about the Church's bloody deeds and her chastening impatience—but that was very foolish of you, for the zeal of the godly cannot, by definition, be pacifistic.†
Chpt 6.3 *
- For progress was pure nihilism, and the liberal bourgeois was in truth a man of nothingness and the Devil—yes, he denied God, the conservative, positive Absolute, and instead pledged allegiance to the devilish Anti-Absolute, and in his deadly pacifism marveled at how devout he was.†
Chpt 6.8pacifism = opposition to violence as a means of settling disputes
Definition:
someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes