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pragmatic
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What They Fought For - 1861-1865
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The attitudes of a good many soldiers on this matter were more pragmatic than altruistic.†
p. 59.5 *

pragmatic = concerned with practical matters
By the summer of 1862, antislavery principle and pragmatism fused into a growing commitment to emancipation as both a means and an end of Union victory.†
p. 59.9

pragmatism = concern with practical matters
The pragmatists weighed in with equally forceful, if less elegant, expressions.†
p. 62.6

pragmatists = people who are concerned with practical matters

Definitions:

(1) (pragmatic)
concerned with practical matters -- especially where quick results and/or practical experience triumph over theory
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)