All 3 Uses of
militant
in
The Lords of Discipline
- The law was unwritten and unpublicized and essential for survival in that militant, inflammatory zone entered through the Gates of Legrand.†
Chpt 1.3 *militant = using extreme or violent methods used to achieve a political goal; or someone who uses such methods
- He had always opposed my militant flippancy about the plebe system, and I knew it would offend him deeply to see it directed at newly ordained aspirants to the invigorating rituals of that system.†
Chpt 1.9
- Yet I wanted toacquire the militant courage of Mark and Pig more than anything, to taste the black and fearless life, to rush at things, to seize each moment and live it as though it were my last.†
Chpt 4.37
Definition:
using extreme or violent methods to achieve a political goal; or someone who uses such methods